LIBNOR training center for food quality and safety

The Minister of Industry, Dr Hussein Al Hajj Hassan, inaugurated yesterday a training center located at the Lebanese Standards Institutions in the presence of CEO Habib Ghaziri and General Director, Lina Dergham, and various staff members. The event which also witnessed the launching of LIBNOR’s new website http://www.libnor.gov.lb, took place at the Institution’s HQs in Beirut’s northern suburb of Dikwaneh.  The center will reportedly provide training courses to public and private sectors in the following fields: quality control and food safety, community awareness and responsibility, good practices of energy consumption, water and carbon marks, and in other practical systems. Hajj Hassan praised efforts exerted lately by the concerned authorities regarding food safety, adding, that the adoption of standard specifications is the only way to ensure compliance of products to national standards and give them their mandatory status.  LIBNOR he said, has made “mandatory a considerable number of non-mandatory specifications of food products”, adding, that this public institution which usually issues, publishes and amends national standards, is now moving to the training field with the opening of the new center.  For her part, Dergham confirmed the relentless endeavor of LIBNOR to issue new standards. Some 2700 standards have been issued to date, across all sectors. She concluded by saying that this organisations has become the primary technical reference for all ministries in the course of their inspection and monitoring campaigns, in addition to serving laboratories who carry out sampling and analysis of products. (As Safir, Al Diyar, February 19 2015)