Food and Drug Administration Refers 471 Establishments to the Public Prosecutor Until August

Al-Taj News – The personnel of the Jordan Food and Drug Administration carried out 44,250 inspection rounds at food establishments in various areas of the Kingdom from the beginning of the year until the end of August, as part of monitoring food safety and the extent of establishments’ compliance with the approved health requirements.

The Administration said Tuesday that the Food Directorate also carried out 1,736 additional inspection rounds through the Departments of Factories, Food in Circulation, Awareness and Guidance, and Oversight of the Industrial Sector, while the inspection rounds resulted in the closure of 534 establishments, the referral of 471 establishments to the Public Prosecutor, the suspension of 1,613 establishments from work, and the issuance of warnings to 23,940 establishments, according to the nature of the violations.

It indicated that approximately 1,458,386 kg of non-compliant food products were destroyed, in addition to 389,753 liters of liquid food products.

The Administration stated that its specialized laboratory personnel dealt during the same period with 42,099 samples of food products and conducted 430,443 laboratory tests on them to verify their compliance with the approved specifications and technical regulations.

The results showed that 38,869 samples, or 92%, were compliant, compared with 3,230 samples, or 8%, that were non-compliant, as the necessary measures were taken against the non-compliant samples in accordance with the approved legislation.