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EGYPT – Egypt is taking steps to comply with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) advice on safer levels of trans fats by requiring manufacturers and importers to limit trans fats levels in all food to two grams per 100 grams of total fat within 12 months. The head of Egypt’s National Food Safety Authority, Dr. Tareq El Houby, claimed that…
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EGYPT – The Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality Control (EOS) has recently been re-elected as member of the board of the African Organization for Standardization (ARSO) from 2022 until 2025. This came during voting held on the sidelines of meetings hosted by the Cameroonian capital under “The Standards We Want – African Union Agenda 2063 and African. The Role…
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EGYPT – Azelis, a leading innovation service provider in the specialty chemicals and food ingredients industry, has announced the opening of a food laboratory in Cairo, Egypt, as part of its efforts to expand its food and nutrition presence in the Middle East and Africa (MEA). The new facility, though will primarily focus on dairy and beverages, is equipped to…
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EGYPT – Indomie Egypt has pulled some of its products from Egyptian markets following an order from the Egyptian National Food Safety Authority (NFSA) which labelled Indomie’s chicken and vegetable flavored instant noodles, as well as instant noodles with chili packs as unsafe for human consumption. After a recent-social media debate regarding the widely-consumed noodles product in the Egyptian markets,…
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EGYPT – The Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (EAEA) has announced that the agricultural research scientists in the authority have started harvesting the production of a new strain of genetically-modified (GM) wheat at the authority’s site in Inshas city, Bilbeis, Sharqia Governorate. The authority said in a statement that the strain has high-productivity with distinct characteristics such as being resistant to…
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NIGERIA – The Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), has challenged Nigeria’s manufacturers to produce quality products which meet international standards to enable the country’s competitiveness in African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), an agreement created to provide a single continent-wide market for goods and services. Speaking at a SON capacity building workshop for Journalists, Director General, SON, Mallam Farouk Salim,…
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