Minister Wael Abu Faour announced Wednesday a new strategy to refocus the media’s attention on his food safety campaign: raids.

The ministry will order a food shop or factory found to be selling contaminated food to stop. If they don’t, the ministry will ask security forces to hit them with raids and shut down their shops, Abu Faour explained.

The minister said his new plan comes as a result of a decline in the media’s attention to his campaign launched in November.

In the first couple weeks of the campaign, he had showered the media with praise, attributing their close coverage of the contaminated food scandal to the success in getting them to shape up.

Many newspapers used to reproduce the lists of food safety violators that Abu Faour had named during his televised press conferences, sometimes with front-page features. But in the past few weeks, media have dedicated less attention to the campaign.

And since media have stopped publishing the list of violators, blacklisted establishments have begun showing little interest in making sure their products meet standards, Abu Faour said.