Vol. 4 No. 1 (2023)

EDITORIAL FOREWORD

The Libyan Society of Food and Nutrition, affiliated with the Libyan Scientific Research Center ‎at the Ministry of Higher Education, is pleased to announce to researchers that, by the grace of ‎Allah, the first issue of the fourth volume 2023 of the Libyan Journal of Food and Nutrition has ‎been published. This comes after the successful conclusion of the Second International ‎Conference on Food and Nutrition, held in December 2023 at the College of Medical ‎Technology, Nalut University, under the theme "Food Processing and Safety: Consumer ‎Protection between Reality and Ambition." The issue includes some of the scientific papers ‎presented at the conference after they were refereed and evaluated. ‎        In order to avoid delays in publication, the Editorial Board of the journal decided to publish ‎accepted and ready-to-publish papers electronically on the journal's website on a rolling basis. ‎The papers will be assigned their final and approved volume numbers in this issue. Once the ‎required number of papers for the issue is complete, it will be compiled and published ‎electronically and in print. ‎      The Libyan Journal of Food and Nutrition continues to shine a light on the fields of food science ‎and nutrition, illuminating the path for researchers, professors, PhD students, master's students, ‎and researchers in research centers and those interested in food and nutrition. We would like to ‎emphasize that the journal will remain committed to its objectivity and distinctiveness in terms of ‎the content published through it by following scientific standards in the evaluation and ‎publication of research. It will also remain committed to its mission as one of the most important ‎scientific and research journals in the fields of food science and nutrition. ‎    The journal is one of the goals of the Society that was achieved, with the grace of Allah, with the ‎convening of the first international conference in 2021 in Tripoli and the second international ‎conference in 2023 in Nalut. The Society is continuing its future plans to prepare for the third ‎international conference in 2025 at faculty of food science, Wadi Alshati University in Brak city. ‎     The Editor-in-Chief seizes this opportunity to express his pride that the journal has not ceased ‎publication and that he has accompanied it since the issuance of its very first issue. This effort is ‎not attributed to the editor-in-chief alone, but is also the effort of those responsible for the ‎journal. This effort comes in light of these circumstances in response to the keenness of our ‎colleagues to continue giving and serving scientific research. ‎      Finally, the Editorial Board of the journal would like to express its sincere thanks and gratitude ‎to all who contributed to the accomplishment of this issue, especially the researchers, professors, ‎reviewers, the scientific committee, the graphic designer of the issue, the expert professors in the ‎advisory board, and the journal secretary who wrote, read, evaluated, and submitted the research. ‎Their efforts have contributed to achieving the vision of the journal's goals and their unlimited ‎support to promote it to compete with other scientific journals in the same field.‎

Dr. Ahmed Ashour Ahmed;

Editor-in-Chief of the journal