Food ad Drug Control Center refuted news circulating through social media pages about the use of potassium bromate in the preparation of bread, stressing that the Center carried out all the necessary laboratory procedures from analysis and proved that the substance was not used in the preparation of bread in Libyan bakeries.
The Center explained that it has taken strict action following the earlier circulation of these rumors because it is authorized to determine the validity of the circulation and formed a broadcasting committee by withdrawing samples of used flour and bread from its sources and places of circulation of 50 cities with 454 samples represented by 404 bread samples, 40 flour samples and 10 bread enhancers. This was by subjecting them to the necessary laboratory procedures of analysis and scrutiny using the substance “potassium bromate” within it.
Food and Drug Control Center reaffirmed that laboratory results showed that potassium bromate in our beloved country was not used in results identical to other legal entities from universities and scientific centres. The center confirmed the health and safety of its results due to its scientific role in this regard, and that its management and all its employees reassure all the Libyan people that the safety of food and medicine is in the hands of the center’s workers.