The head of the Lebanese Task Force
for Nutrition-Related Diseases, Sueiman Jari, said: “Our NGO approached three
years ago a ministry that deals with food safety issues in order to team up for
a project that was intended to address the gaps of food safety regulations ...,
but the ministry turned us down, saying that they didn’t have a budget.”
The group said that according to the
most recent statistics, 503 people were hospitalized in 2010 for food
poisoning, while unsafe food was blamed for the death of two people last year.
The NGO urged officials to ratify a food safety
law which has been in Parliament for several years and conduct strict oversight
on food production. 
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