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DEC, 2011 M E F O S A N E W S L E T T E R

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

M E F O S A & P R I V A T E

S E C T O R 1

M E F O S A Q U A L I T Y C O N -

T R O L 2

H O S P I T A L & C E N T E R S 3

H O S P I T A L I T I E S H E A L T H 4

A G R I P O L E , L A M A ,

W A F I C 5

A S S O S I A T I O N S &

A F F L I A T E S 6

M E F O S A H O S P I T A L

T R A I N I N G 7

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

G O O D H Y G I E N I C

P R A C T I C E S 8

L I S T E R I A A N D T H E

D E A T H I N U . S . A S A F E T Y 9

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G O O D P R A C T I C E S A N D

M I C R O B I O L O G I C A L

E X A M I N A T I O N

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Lions Bldg. 301 – 126 Sourati Street

P.O.Box: 113-6382 - Beirut – Lebanon

Tel: 00 961 1 343141 / 343101

Fax: 00 961 1 739986 / 346218

MEFOSA & THE PRIVATE SECTOR

MENA Food Safety Associates (MEFOSA) was formed to

assist companies hone their competitive edge by

establishing and verifying procedures and practices that

ensure quality, wholesome and safe products.

MEFOSA s.a.r.l believes that safe food and feed are basic

building blocks for sustainable development, and that the

Arab Middle East should develop its own food safety

prerequisites in full recognition with its own socio-economic

priorities, and… in harmony with international standards and

norms, while respecting the culture, family values,

environment, and quality of life throughout the MENA

region.

Throughout its years of hands-on practice in the food safety and sustainability sector,

MEFOSA gained an extensive knowledge about the private sector needs and requirements to

bypass emerging challenges and meet international standards.

MEFOSA believes in building capacities and in each organization role in developing its own

tailor-made safety vision and strategies. MEFOSA will help you build your own team of

experts and achieving a Self-Dependency Level where you can lead your institution to adopt

required national and international values.

MEFOSA’s fields of intervention will guide each institution through the whole safety path. We’ll

evaluate your needs, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and provide you with full

know- how understanding.

Lions Bldg.#301—126 Sourati street

P.O.BOX :113-6382 - Beirut—Lebanon

Tel: 00 961 1 745744— Fax: 00 961 1 739986 email: [email protected] -

[email protected]

M E F O S A S . A . R . L

Our activities include but are not limited to:

- Food safety, Food hygiene, Food traceability, as for the new EU directives and laws.

- Food Safety Audits and Training to national and international food related requirements:

HACCP, GMP, ISO, CODEX and food borne illness.

- Good Manufacturing Practices (21 CFR 100)

- HACCP implementation

- Sanitation/GMP Audits: Sanitation and Handling practices. To conduct an independent

audit using 21 CFR 110 as a guide.

- General EFSA/EU and FDA/USA Compliance Audits: to comply with FDA, USDA and

EFSA regulations regarding acceptable equipment and Networking, Communication

within companies (ERP solutions) and address supply chains sterilization practices.

MEFOSA believes in the quantified and measurable

food safety. Our assistance won’t limit you to

understanding safety concepts and regulations but will

offer you the means to self-monitor and verify your

operation safety.

Our wide range of products, equipments, softwares and IT

solutions in addition to trainings, consultancy services and

projects management provide a whole approach to

implement food safety.

Since its launching, MEFOSA assisted several private sectors institutions understand and adopt

food safety measures. From Food Processing establishments and specialized industries (Water

treatment, boilers, Grease traps, drains, Septic systems treatment, water decontamination and Odor



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schools & Universities, Supermarkets…




P L A N N I N G & T R A I N I N G





Our action

plan will take

you through:

Consultancy and Training

Equipments and Self-

monitoring tools

provision

Continuous Stand-by

and follow up

A S S O C I A T I O N S A F F L I A T E S





MEFOSA is also affiliated with several associations (LAMA, WAFIC) which are active as a consortium and realising several projects such as AGRIPOLE which is a project created to be a new Business Development Centre (BDC) and business incubator established in Lebanon and provides:

- Market and export development planning - Business and strategic planning - Financial planning - Advice on raising loans and investment finance - Advice and training in a range of topics including human resources, production, quality

standards, etc.

For more info, please contact:

Tel/Fax: + 961 1 739 986 │ Tel: + 961 1 745 744 │

Services Department: [email protected]

Sales Department: [email protected]

[email protected]

G O O D H Y G I E N I C P R A C T I C E S


“ Trading in safe

food and feed

are a

prerequisite for

sustainable

development “

E. Coli Outbreak: Cases Likely to Increase Worldwide!! “Very large and Very severe”

A recent deadly E. coli (EHEC) outbreak in Europe is expected to be worsening in coming days, and there is a great possibility that it will spread worldwide, where the outbreak has shown itself to be spreading geographically as well.

EHEC produces toxins, known as verotoxins or Shiga-like toxins (STEC O104) because of their similarity to the toxins produced by Shigella dysenteriae. The EHEC strain may cause hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).

The prevention of EHEC outbreak must be based on good hygienic practices and control of the contamination of foods by biological and chemical hazards. This can be achieved most effectively through the application of food safety assurance programmes (GAP, GMP), based on the principles of the (HACCP) system.

Recent publication in the International Herald Tribune (June 29, 2011) showed that a certain report by the European Food Safety Authority confirmed that sprouts grown from fenugreek seeds imported from Egypt in 2009 and 2010 “are implicated in both outbreaks.” But it added that “there is still much uncertainty about whether this is truly the common cause of the infections” because tests on the seeds had not yet found any of the deadly E. coli, a rare strain known as O104:H4. Food safety experts say, however, that the bacteria can contaminate one seed in thousands and that it is very difficult to isolate in seed samples!!!

Identification of E. coli O104 can be done by using selective media specific for E.coli 0104, by serotyping with K and O antisera and PCR Techniques, ONLY Visit our website at www.mefosa.net to check all the materials related to identifying E.coli and other microorganisms. Moreover, MEFOSA recently can support you in the sequencing analysis of whole genome of each microorganism.

Imtithal Sheet

Services and Consultation Department MEFOSA 126 Sourati St., Lions Bldg # 301 P.O. Box: 113-6382, Hamra, Beirut 1103 2120, LEBANON T/F: 00961 1 745744 / 739986 E-mail: [email protected] www.mefosa.com

Listeria Disease

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MEFOSA SERVICES

Lions Building # 301 │ 126 Sourati Street │

Hamra, Beirut – Lebanon │ P.O.Box: 113-6382, Hamra │

حىفط ييفىسا أحسد انىسائم انخي حك ي كشف حىاخس

انساليت هص انبكخطيا وغيطها ويع اخمانها بهسف حأيي

.انغصائيت وانىلايت ي انعسوي انخمهت عبط انغصاء

!في انىالياث انخحسةشرص ٦١ حخسبب بىفاة انهسخطيا

حانت وفاة في ٦١”في حمطيط حسيذ شط في خطيسة انحياة حج اإلشاضة إن

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األيطاض حيذ حصم انعىالب نىفاة اندي أو انىالزة انبكطة وانسيططة عه

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. بساليت انغصاء وانخطهباث انصحيت وانصاعيت انعخسة انىاضيع انخعهمت

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كافت األصعسة انصحيت واإللخصازيت انصحيت انخمهت عبط انغصاء ويا يخح عها ي عىالب عه

وانخىيت حيذ يشهس انعانى ححسياث في انساليت انغصائيت يدب يىاخهخها وإحراش انخسابيط انىلائيت

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A S S O C I A T E S ( M E F O S A )


S A V I N G T H E E N V I R O N E M E N T

Lions Bldg. 301 – 126 Sourati Street 301126

FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN HELP SAVE YOUR ENVIRONMENT AND SAVE MONEY TOO!!

Due to the global warming, it has seriously affects the natural environment in the south and north polar. It is time to change our mindset to care more on our earth before it is too late. Nothing is much more important than protecting our earth from continue the

bad situation.

Can you really improve something that is already so good?

Yes, you can!

MEFOSA will present you with new Windaus Environment

Product highlights at competitive prices.

Product Highlights:

EcoLabBox and Environment:

Allows easy access to environmental matters and investigations

for everyone.

Designed for groups and class projects in school & universities

Carry out all measurements directly outside at the pond, river,

lake or in the garden or on the field.

All reagents are classified as not harmful to the environment

Carry out: - pH,Nitrate,Ammonium,Phosphate,Nitrite,Total

Hardness in Water, pH, Nitrate, Phosphate, Ammonium in Soil.


E N V I R O N E M N T A L M E A S U R I N G T O O L S

Environmental Measuring Box:

Professional Instruments with high performance for testing:

- 12 chemical parameter in water

- Dissolved oxygen

- Conductivity

- pH

Ideal for user who wants to carry out quick and reliable test on the

spot

Very good for project groups, environmentalists etc. The ideal mobile

lab for filed use!

Winlab Combi-Box:

We present you :

Winlab Combi measuring box: pH & Conductivity

Winlab Combi measuring box: pH & DO

Winlab Combi measuring box: Conductivity & DO

All necessary electrode and buffer solutions are inside

the box!

You always have 2 instruments inside!!

Sample Taking System

Elaborating many different sample taking devices or catching nets was

our first priority.

MEFOSA support you with the most comfortable

instruments as fibre glass telescope pole, water

scoop beaker, waterlanding net, insect catcher,

vegetation scraping net and others.

For more information, check the catalog on www.mefosa.com

For purchase, please do visit www.mefosa.net

Services and Consultation Department

126 Sourati St.Lions Bldg # 301

P.O.Box :113-6382,Hamra

Beirut 1103 2120,Lebanon

[email protected]

Www.mefosa.com

B U S I N E S S T A G L I N E

www.mefosa.com

www.mefosa.net

EU Quality Project

(Food Quality Committee)

Lebanese Federation of

Chamber of Commerce

(International Agreements

Committee)

International Chamber of

Commerce-Lebanon

(Agriculture Committee)

Lebanese Association for

Food Scientists & Technicians

(LAFST)

Lebanese Association for

Marketing & Advertising

(LAMA/WFA-Lb)

Syndicate of Lebanese Food

Industries

(SLFI)

Safra Food Industrial

Zone

(SFIZ)

Lebanese Association

for Geographic

Appellation

(LAGA)

Federation of Food Syndicates

(FFS)

M E F O S A

I T G R O U P - S A L E S D E P .

Good practices and Microbiological Examination

“ Trading in safe

food and feed

are a

prerequisite for

sustainable

development “

From Green Spring

In the context of

addressing

Laboratories’ Capacity -

Bu ilding and ensure

so lid and certified

Testing In frastructure

and Environm ent in

Lebanon, a train ing on

“G ood Laboratory Practices in M icrobio logical Exam ination ”

w as held by M EFO SA (M iddle East Food Safety A ssociates)

on the 19th

, 20th

and 21st

o f O ctober 2011 at the Cham ber of

Com m erce, Industry and A gricu lture of Beirut & M ount

Lebanon, Sanayeh, Beirut.

Throughout the 3-days of this training, D r. Tahan presented

som e generalities on the G ood Laboratory Practices and

then exposed specifically the gu idelines of the ISO 7218:2007

em phasizing on the

requirem ents

concerning the

prem ises, the staff, the

apparatus and

equipm ent, the

preparation of

glassw are, the

preparation and

Training on G ood

L aboratory Practices in

M icrobiological

E xam ination

O ctober 2011

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