Three-day IOFS Food Safety Forum concludes – The Peninsula Qatar

Three-day IOFS Food Safety Forum concludes – The Peninsula Qatar

Doha: Strategic Commodities and Food Safety Forum, organised by the Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS) in cooperation with the Ministry of Municipality, wrapped up yesterday three-day activities, attended by a number of Islamic World’s experts and PhD holders engaging in series of seminars and discussions of several recommendations.

In an exclusive statement to Qatar News Agency (QNA), Director of the Food Security Department at the Ministry of Municipality Dr. Masoud Jarallah Al Marri said that having finished its activities, the Forum issued recommendations related to strengthening cooperation and coordination between the IOFS countries through creating an information platform to exchange ideas and data capable of raising the productivity of strategic commodities, explaining that the IOFS would submit these recommendations to the IOFS’s ministers of agriculture for discussion them in their next meeting, as well as defining a practical plan for implementation. Also, it reviewed way for raising the productivity of strategic commodities, developing halal food control systems, and organizing food safety standards, the official further said.