Raising the penalties provided for in Legislative Decree No. 71 dated 09/09/1983 (food safety)

Type

Law

Number

63

Date of the text

12/08/1988

Official Gazette

published in 1988

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

2

What it provides

This law amends the penalties of Legislative Decree 71 of 1983 on food safety, setting imprisonment and fines for violations and imposing harsher penalties, up to death, on anyone who knowingly markets contaminated or spoiled food that causes poisoning, epidemic or death.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1988. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.