AMMAN — The Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA) regularly follows up and tests
all products in the market, even before the Audit Bureau may detect any
violations, JFDA Director-General Nizar Al-Mheidat said.
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His comment followed the Audit Bureau’s release of
its annual report for 2021, which reported the suspension of a custom committee
that discovered most powdered milk products in the local market violated
instructions by the Ministry of Agriculture.
The committee’s report revealed that unspecified
factories outside Jordan re-packaged powdered milk imported from a country,
other than the country of origin, and added hydrogenated vegetable fats into
the product whose manufacture or import is prohibited in the Kingdom.
The milk, it added, was sold in the Kingdom on the
basis that it is full-fat milk, containing animal fats.
The committee’s report said that powdered milk is
being imported and packaged in unspecified neighboring countries. It said factories
there mix and package the milk in violation of technical regulations in Jordan,
which ban the import and manufacture of products that contain vegetable oils
and fats.
The report also revealed that the factories also
manipulated the terms of the customs tariff, as they did not pay the customs
fees or the general sales tax, which amounted to JD544,245.
Mheidat told
Jordan News that the violations were
the responsibility of Jordanian Customs. “The powdered milk note was entirely a
custom case,” he explained.
He stressed that all milk products in the market
“have no problem, are healthy and fit for human consumption”.
“Products that enter the local market all conform to
specifications,” he said.
The Minister of State for Prime Ministry Affairs, Ibrahim Al-Jazi,
announced that most of the 2,776 violations reported in the Audit Bureau’s
annual report for 2021 “have been previously corrected”.
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