Lebanon Food Occurrence Database
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About the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health
The vision of the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health is to build an integrated, people centered, health system that promotes and sustains the highest attainable health status of the population, through ensuring a universal health coverage, while addressing the social determinants of health. The Ministry will work in partnership with all stakeholders, following good governance principles, to develop its institutional capacity for effective stewardship of the health sector, to ensure the promotion of better health and the provision of equitable, efficient and quality health services, in both public and private sector, that meet legitimate people’s expectations and needs, with particular emphasis on the poor, disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, thereby contributing to sustainable development of the country.
The investment in data availability to support food regulatory measures is one of the key elements of the mandate of the Global Food Regulatory Science Society (GFoRSS). The availability and accuracy of occurrence data is crucial to support the development of sound and substantiated food regulatory decisions; data being the backbone of the risk analysis process. Similarly, the ability to contribute to the development and / or adaptation of international food standards requires the reliance on a robust set of occurrence data that reflect the local, national or regional environment and to support exposure assessment. Accessibility to occurrence data is yet a major challenge faced by the Arab region. Therefore, a priority area of investment in the field of food regulatory science was set for the region to ensure the availability of such data. This online portal was developed in this context, to allow the collection of Lebanese food occurrence data through a systematic scanning and data mining of published articles, and from data providers in the country (competent authorities, control laboratories, research institutes, academic institutions, etc.). It is expected that this database constitutes the repository of food occurrence data for the Lebanon, enabling its contribution to the Arab Food Occurrence Database, which in turn will potentially contribute to the GEMS Food database and other international calls for data in support of international food standard setting.
Users and data providers are kindly requested to register through the registration link. For any support or technical issue, please do not hesitate to contact us at database@arabcodex.org.
About GFoRSS:
The Global Food Regulatory Science Society (GFoRSS) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote the development of competencies, know-how and knowledge – including scientific and policy analyses – which underpin food regulatory decisions and support the development and implementation of food control systems.
