Alrai - Muhaidat: "Food and Drug" does not close any industrial establishment until after it commits a grave breach.

"Food and Drug" agrees to extend the powers of the GMP certificate to cosmetic factories.

The head of the Jordan and Amman Chambers of Industry, Engineer Fathi Al-Jaghbir emphasized the importance of cooperation between the General Organization for Food and Drug and the industrial sector. He praised the Foundation's efforts in resolving issues of concern to the industrial sector, especially during the Corona pandemic.

This came during the meeting chaired by Engineer Al-Jaghbir in the Jordan Chamber of Industry and gathering industrial companies operating in the cosmetics and Dead Sea salts sector with the Director General of the Food and Drug General Organization, Dr. Nizar Muhaidat, in the presence of Eng. Ahmed Al-Bas, representative of the chemical industries and cosmetics sector.

Engineer Al-Jaghbir valued the opening of an office for the institution in the Amman Chamber of Industry building, to facilitate the industrialists and save their time and effort, stressing that the Jordanian detergents and detergents industry has witnessed a great development in recent years in terms of quality and quantity of production, so that these industries have become able to cover the needs of the local market and export markets. .

In turn, Dr. Muhaidat emphasized the corporation’s keenness to support the competitiveness of Jordanian industries, by facilitating registration and export procedures for these products.

He announced that all 78 services provided by the corporation will be automated, including registration, classification and certification, in addition to the creation of a specialized unit in the organization on the subject of filtering and classification of products that quickly provides services to the auditors.

Muhaidat stressed that the Foundation, in its procedures, places securing safe and healthy food and medicine for the citizen at the top of its priorities, in implementation of the directives of His Majesty King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein.

He emphasized that the corporation does not resort to closing any industrial establishment, except after making sure that it committed a grave breach related to the citizen's health.

On the same level, Muhaidat said during the meeting that the GMP application certificate, which is considered Zambian for factories operating in cosmetics, which has expired, was considered valid until the inspection teams of the Food and Drug Administration come to the factory to ensure that their requirements are applied. Provided that the manufacturer submitted an application to the institution to renew the certificate before 9/17/2020.

In response to the requests of industrial companies, Muhaidat decided to approve the extension of the validity of the GMP certificate issued for the first time for a period of two years instead of one year.

With regard to the industrial companies ’request for equality between the GMP Good Manufacturing Practices certificate and the ISO22716 international certificate for local factories, Muhadidat agreed to that for a period of three months, provided that a specialized technical committee is formed to ensure the ISO22716 certification is completely equal to the principles of good manufacturing practices GMP and that this committee be included Two representatives of the Chambers of Industry are Eng. Abdullah Al-Banna and Eng. Soha Al-Asadi.

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