Workshop on Food Safety at the Chamber of Trade in Tripoli

Within the framework of its AGROPLUS programme, and in collaboration with Bureau Veritas Lebanon, IDAL organized yesterday a workshop on managing food safety systems, at the Chamber of Trade, Industry and Agriculture in Tripoli.  The event was attended by a number of exporters and packagers in the area.  During the workshop, the head of the Bureau Veritas bureau in Lebanon, Joseph Shetta, emphasized the importance of food safety regulations at the level of agricultural products.  He noted that this is a comprehensive chain that requires meticulous monitoring at each stage and so that to enhance the competitiveness of local exported products.  The President of the Chamber, Tufic Dabbussi, stressed for his part the importance of food safety at the level of consumption both locally and for exported goods.  He added that the Chamber follows up on matters concerning farmers, exporters as well as industrialists so as to strengthen the development process.  In conclusion, economist expert at IDAL, Abbas Ramadan, said that Lebanese agricultural exports have been able to make a breakthrough in several new and non-traditional markets and score accrued increases during the past year and that is because of the application of quality standards by both producers and exporters and through the monitoring of companies commissioned by IDAL. (Al Mustaqbal and Al Diyar, 27 November 2015)