Under Presidential directives, the Minister of Health discusses with the head of food safety requirements for the safety of products
Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Population, held a meeting with Dr. Tariq Al -Houbi, Chairman of the Food Safety Authority, to discuss the mechanisms and controls of controlling food products and facilities concerned with their circulation, in light of the directives of President Abdel Fattah El -Sisi, to ensure the quality and safety of food products circulated in the Egyptian market. Health, and Dr. Radi Hammad, Head of the Preventive Medicine Sector. Citizens.
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& nbsp; The link. To examine and ensure its suitability for human consumption, 186 tons and 994 kg were executed, and 48 thousand and 307 liters of juices and drinks were executed for change in natural properties and their inability to consume, and (327) tons of various foods and 102 thousand and 858 liters of juices and drinks were seized, due to doubt about the lack of Its validity. Food for reasons related to managing facilities without a license or the presence of pollution sources in it, and the Preventive Medicine Sector at the Ministry of Health and Population extracted 140 thousand and 545 health certificates for food workers. Any health events related to food safety are also monitored through the event surveillance program that aims to collect all data, through various community media, where (1004) cases of food poisoning suspected from different food sources from all governorates were monitored during the first quarter of this year. The Ministry of Health and Population, through the National Institute for Nutrition, is also conducting an evaluation of the sugars intake, and setting the necessary procedures to reduce these proportions in line with the global proportions, in the context of maintaining the health of citizens and preventing diseases.
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The regulatory teams concerned during the past days implemented extensive field inspection campaigns on factories and shops selling and trading food products belonging And the safe food products circulated in the markets, in the framework of the periodic work for the preventive medicine sector and the Food Control Department in coordination with the Food Safety Authority.
& nbsp; (122) Its origin is not licensed, and (437) samples of that series were withdrawn that a percentage of them is not identical to the Egyptian standard specifications and binding technical regulations, as well With food, which resulted in the taking of legal measures for the temporary suspension of the activity, until the health and administrative violations are avoided, through the Food Safety Authority and the administrative authorities concerned with localities in various governorates.
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