BEIRUT: Former Minister Faisal Karami posted on Facebook Wednesday an image of him eating a kanafeh sandwich from Tripoli’s Al-Hallab sweets shop, dismissing the Health Minister’s warning about the shop’s food safety standards.
Karami posted the picture with a text slamming Health Minister Abu Faour’s news conference on Tuesday.
“My breakfast today was kanafeh with ashta from the Hallab... to express how much I trust the strange and reckless show by the Health Ministry yesterday,” Karami said.
On Tuesday, Abu Faour revealed the names of restaurants, supermarkets, bakeries and sweet shops that had violated food safety principles in the storage or processing of one or many of their products.
Al-Hallab Sweets, which is one of the most prominent in Lebanon and certainly the most famous in Tripoli, was on Abu Faour’s list of shame. The shop’s ashta, according to the laboratory results published by the minister, contained microbes or diseases that pose a risk on the consumer’s health.
“When the preliminary examination results say that the ashta in such a large establishment does not meet the standards, it is out of modesty and wisdom that the Health Ministry repeats the tests and verify any information before publishing them to the public opinion,” Karami said.
A member of one of Tripoli’s most prominent political families, Karami accused Abu Faour of “shaming one of the most experienced and respected establishments in terms of quality and international standards.”
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