A new mechanism to stimulate the food safety campaign as private companies show laxity on the subject

The current Minister of Health, Wael Abou Faour, convened a Press Conference yesterday during which he announced the new mechanism to follow for the on-going food safety campaign.  The new approach consists of divulging the name of the concerned institution, informing it to stop selling the non-compliant product/s and returning for a monitoring visit a few days later.  Abou Faour threatened that he will shut down any institution which will continue to sell non-compliant products which will be destroyed.  According to Abou Faour, the decision to adopt these new measures is due to the diminishing interest in the campaign among private companies, as some of the non complying companies listed on the Ministry’s website did not even contact the Ministry to find out which of their product/s have failed the safety tests.

(Source: Annahar, As-Safir, Al-Diyar, Al-Akhbar & Al-Mustaqbal 29 January, 2015)