BEIRUT: Health Ministry inspectors shut down a sweets shop and a food warehouse in Beirut and east Lebanon Saturday, the ministry announced in a statement.
An unnamed sweets shop in Taalbaya, east Lebanon, was shut down after discovering some rotten products and others with fake expiration dates.
Another team of inspectors also shut down a food warehouse belonging to Adonis Spices in the Beirut suburb of Bir Hasan, the statement added.
Spices, ice cubes and fish were found stored in manners that violated food safety standards, the statement explained.
The ministry also announced that a dairy products factory in the Bekaa Valley belonging Mustapha al-Shammouri has been giving the green light to resume operations after an inspection Saturday revealed that all violations were corrected.
The moves were the last in a nationwide crackdown on food safety violations that Health Minister Wael Abu Faour launched in November.
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