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Obtaining approval from the Food and Drug Administration
(last modified: 08/03/2022)

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Contact details

Entity in charge

Customs Centers - Jordan Customs Department

Main Department- King Hussein Street - opposite the Ministry of Finance, Amman - Abdali 11190
Tel: +962-64623186
Tel. 1: +962-64647791
Email: customs@customs.gov.jo
Website: https://www.customs.gov.jo/ar/index.aspx
Directions: Google maps
All centers where the national window is applied in the Customs Department working hours are 24 hours, except that it is working from 7:30-15:30, except on Fridays.

Unit in charge

Offices of the Food and Drug Administration in customs centers

Mon: 07:30 - 07:30
Tue: 07:30 - 07:30
Wed: 07:30 - 07:30
Thu: 07:30 - 07:30
Fri: 07:30 - 07:30
Sat: 07:30 - 07:30
Sun: 07:30 - 07:30
All centers where the national window is applied in the Customs Department working hours are 24 hours, except that it is working from 7:30-15:30, except on Fridays.

Person in charge

Representatives of the Food and Drug Administration (an office in each customs center)

Employee

Expected results

Converting the customs declaration Lane to green (electronically)

Requirements

1. 01 - Libre deuda de patente
Phytosanitary certificate from the country of origin (original)
Type of document: electronic copy
2. 01 - Libre deuda de patente
Packing list (original)
Type of document: electronic copy
3. 01 - Libre deuda de patente
Foreign Certificate of Origin (original)
Type of document: electronic copy
4. 01 - Libre deuda de patente
Commercial invoice (original)
Type of document: electronic copy

Time frame

Waiting time in queue: Min.   5mn - Max.  15mn
Attention at counter: Min.   10mn - Max.   30mn

Legal justification

1. دليل المراجع -مؤسسة الغذاء والدواء
Reference Guide - Food and Drug Administration The Food and Drug Administration inspects the goods and matches the thermal record of the product according to the transportation and storage instructions for that product, immediately upon arrival
2. Food Law No. 30 for the year 2015
Food Law No. 30 for the year 2015
Article icle4candicle12

Additional information

1. The customs declaration documents and prior licenses are checked by the Food and Drug Association according to the items targeted electronically, and the contents are taken out to the customs yards (Square 4 in the Aqaba Customs Center) according to the selectivity system for the purposes of inspection, sampling or detection, and then the customs declaration is authorized .
2. In the case of the yellow lane, the goods are subject to inspection by the Food and Drug General Association, and in the case of the red lane, the contents are subject to a laboratory testing and the goods are taken out provided that they undertake not to act until the final analysis result appears.
Note: The inspection is done in yard 4 at the Aqaba Customs Center by representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture in the event that the goods are loaded in containers, but if the goods are (bulk) they are inspected on the quay by a committee formed by the Ministry of Agriculture, JFDA and Customs.
Note: The ships loaded with wheat are not unloaded until after the results of the examination appear and they are conformed.

Who certified this information ?

Raafat HALLAQE, Eng, 04/10/2021

Recourse: Food and Drug Administration

Entity in charge

Food and Drug Administration

Ahmed Al-Kayed Al-Qutaishat Street - next to the General Directorate of the Gendarmerie, Amman 11953
Tel: +962-65632000 / +962-64602550
Tel. 1: +962-65105916 +962-65105893
Email: info@jfda.jo
Website: http://www.jfda.jo/
Directions: Google maps

Unit in charge

Food Directorate/General Food and Drug Administration

Mon: 08:00 - 15:00
Tue: 08:00 - 15:00
Wed: 08:00 - 15:00
Thu: 08:00 - 15:00
Fri: closed
Sat: closed
Sun: 08:00 - 15:00

Person in charge

Dr. Amjad Haimour

Head of the imported food department
Tel: +962-65632000
Email: Amjad.Haymour@jfda.jo
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