Food Control System in Jordan

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Food Control System in Jordan

• Dr. Zuhair Al Shurman
• Head of Slaughterhouses Division
• Veterinary Department
• Ministry of Agriculture

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Legislations

• Interim Agricultural Law no. 44 for the year
  2002.
• Interim Food Control Law no. 79 for the year
  2001.
• Interim Food and Drug Administration Law no. 31
  for the year 2003.
• Municipality Law
• JSMO legislations

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Laws Regulations

• 1.      Agriculture Law (44/2002).
• a)      Instruction of License and Organize the
  Poultry slaughter (NO.z/16/2003)
• b)      Instruction of License and Organize the
  Livestock Slaughter (NO.z/39/2003).
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• 2.      Jordan Food and Drug Administration
  Control law (32/2003)
• a)      Instruction of Handling and Storage food
  products.
• b)      Instruction of Licensing the food
  establishments.

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Laws Regulations

• 3.      Jordan Institution for Standards and
  Metrology Law. (22/2000)
• a)      Additives standards
• b)      Food Packaging standards.
• c)      Cleaning and detergent standard.
• d)      Residues in food products 1533/2003
• e)      Canning, de-boning and grinding products
  standards.
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• 4.      Great Amman Municipality System.
• a)      Amended Slaughter House regulations in
  Great Amman. (42/1997)
• b)      Slaughter House regulation in Great
  Amman. (01/1985)

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Food System Controlling Agencies

• Ministry of Agriculture
• Jordan Food Drug Administration (FDA)
• Ministry of Health
• Ministry of Municipality
• Jordan Institution fro Standards Metrology

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Jordan FDA

• Assurance of food safety and suitability for
  human consumption.
• Proper control on food at the retail and
  distribution level.
• Regular monitoring to assure that the food
  fulfills the regulatory standards set by JISM

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Jordan FDA

• Deals with
• Processed food
• Fresh frozen food
• All types of food except fresh meat

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Jordan JFDA

• Regular monitoring on retail level to assure
  validity of food
• Regular checking on supermarket, shops and retail
  markets.

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Ministry of Health

• Assurance of health status of the employees and
  workers in meat processing plants and food
  factories
• Join the the national committee for
  slaughterhouses monitoring

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Ministry of Municipality

• They own the building of slaughterhouses
• Hire the veterinarians for meat inspection
• Join the national slaughterhouses committee

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Ministry of Agriculture

• Set regulations for import/export of food
  consignments
• Issue veterinary health certificates for food of
  animal origin upon request of the importing
  country
• Monitoring of health status of food animal

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Ministry of Agriculture
Veterinary Department
Animal Health
Slaughterhouses
Veterinary Quarantine
Pharmacy Veterinary Drugs control
Poultry Health
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Slaughterhouses Control

• Ministry of Agriculture through the veterinary
  department has a monitoring and supervisory
  action on slaughterhouses (livestock Poultry).
• Slaughterhouses Division within the department is
  the responsible official agency to do such
  supervision and monitoring.

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Responsibilities of Slaughterhouses Division

• Regular visits are conducted to central and
  regional slaughterhouses for checking on the
• The routine meat inspection practices on
  livestock and poultry carcasses
• Hygienic practices inside the slaughterhouse
• Sanitary environment inside the slaughterhouse

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Responsibilities of Slaughterhouses Division

• Managing the monthly , quarterly and annual
  reports submitted form the slaughterhouses,
  illustrating the followings
• Species of slaughtered animals
• Number of slaughtered animals
• Number of condemned carcasses
• Reasons for condemnation

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Responsibilities of Slaughterhouses Division

• Provide the animal health division at the
  veterinary department with the output of passive
  surveillance system that is obtained from routine
  inspection procedures.

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Responsibilities of Slaughterhouses Division

• Submit monthly, quarterly and annual reports
  regarding the animal health status of the
  slaughtered animals, for considerations of the
  Veterinary department and to be included within
  the OIE country reports.

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Responsibilities of Slaughterhouses Division

• Chairing a national technical committee for
  slaughterhouses supervision and monitoring, which
  consists of representatives from
• Ministry of Agriculture
• Ministry of Health
• Ministry of Municipality
• Ministry Trade Industry

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Oie listed Diseases

• Foot and mouth disease (FMD) ,
• Rinder pest (RP).
• Peste des petits ruminants (PPR).
• Rift valley fever (RVF).
• Sheep pox and goat pox.
• Newcastle disease (ND).

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National Animal Disease and production reporting
system.

• Daily Veterinary Clinics Report
• Notifiable Infectious diseases reports
• Diagnostic Laboratories reports
• Slaughter-houses reports
• Early warning devices
• Data collection and analysis.
• regular surveillance for some diseases in
  addition to many case studies conducted upon
  request and needs