Legislative Decree on the Safety of Foodstuffs of All Kinds

Type

Decree-Law

Number

71

Date of the text

09/09/1983

Official Gazette

published in 1983

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

11

What it provides

This decree governs the monitoring of food safety, setting out how samples of suspect foodstuffs are taken from markets, seized and laboratory-tested. It also provides for lifting seizures or destroying contaminated goods on the order of the public prosecution, withdrawing similar products from markets, and recording t

What has changed this text

• Amended by Law No. 63/1988 of 12/08/1988, articles 9

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1983. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.