The Director of the Information Office at the Food and Drug Control Center, Mohammed Al-Zayyat, denied sharing the circulating news about the emergence of any laboratory results so far for the samples of “Kinder” chocolate, indicating that the center’s inspectors pulled samples of the brand’s products and referred them to the center’s laboratories for laboratory analysis and verification that it is free from bacterial infection.
Al-Zayyat explained that the Food and Drug Control Center did not declare and did not show any results regarding the samples withdrawn from the Libyan market from the “Kinder” chocolate product, stressing that the measures taken are to search for contaminated injuries from the product, which are mainly limited to certain batches issued from its country of origin, the company’s factory in Belgium.
He added that the center communicated with the corresponding authorities internally and externally and issued instructions to survey the Libyan market by withdrawing samples of the product and referring them to the center’s laboratories to conduct laboratory analysis on them to ensure that they are free of bacterial infection and operations and the country of origin mentioned on it. He also raised the supervisory ceiling at the ports to ensure that the supplied products are free of operations and the established factory.