Inspectors shut down over 2,000 food facilities

AMMAN — Food safety inspectors at the Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA) have shut down 2,100 food facilities in a nationwide crackdown on violations of health standards, which began in January this year.

JFDA teams had carried out 35,260 inspections across the Kingdom seizing and destroying 2,344 tonness of foodstuff that were unfit for human consumption or did not meet standards, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

The administration said that Amman topped the list with 57 per cent of the closures, followed by Zarqa and Irbid, with 21 per cent each, adding that 676 food stores had been referred to the prosecutor general and that 22,000 warnings were issued to other facilities.