name: Rania Kudsi
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Food and Drugs in Jordan
23 February, 2008
As a mother and a member of a family ... I'd like to discuss some issues that I'm sure are the concern of each and every family in Jordan.Lately I've been purchasing a well known brand of milk (Jordanian) that I thought was the best but I was completely wrong. So many times I opened the milk for my children - thank God I've tasted it - to find out that this milk has a very bad taste and it's not good for drinking. I ask my Mom and my relatives and even the doctor of my children to find out that all of them had experienced the same issue with that brand. I really wonder what the food control department is doing in Jordan and why this company is not being questioned......What about the eggs , why in Jordan we don't have a production date or expiry date just to know when was this egg produced and when will it expiries ... don't u think it's our right to buy fresh eggs. How will I know that this egg is produced now or long ago.What about the different food prices in Jordan? You go to buy from a shop near your house to find out that it has doubled the price then you go to a mall to find it triple the price and then you end up moving all around to pick some things from a place and the other from another. Is this fair to us???Where is our right to eat healthy good food ?? why when you go to buy some products from malls , sometimes you find it expired or at least it has only one month to expire? Why you can smell the chicken and fish once you enter a big well known mall and you feel so disgusted with that smell and if you are a fool to buy it you will end up in a hospital.Why the antibiotics in Jordan are over the counter medication??? That anyone can buy it without a prescriptions and sadly to say even the doctors are giving them to people and to kids every time they are sick even id it was only a virus that doesn’t even need antibiotic and it will go alone … We are killing ourselves …..
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Rania,
There is very little monitoring of products in Jordanian markets. On average, our newspapers publish news about some supermarket or restaurant getting busted for selling damaged foods or expired goods. The Jordanian Institution of Standards and Metrology and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce simply DO NOT have the resources necessary to monitor and follow-up on the status of goods and foods in our markets. I know because I once worked with them.
The situation in Jordan is a joke.
Tololy | 24/02/2008, 11:42 [ Reply ]