AMMAN — Over the past two days, social media
was abuzz with news that the
Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA) will prevent
the entry of any medication it does not approve of.
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In a statement published by the agency on its
official website and on Facebook, JFDA Director-General
Nizar Mhaidat said that
individuals are allowed to bring into the country, for personal use, an amount
of medicine sufficient for a period not exceeding three months.
According to Mhaidat, these instructions come with the aim of ensuring the
safety of imported drugs and limiting the import of unregistered drugs in
commercial quantities.
He added that teams of the supervisory institution
seize, during the periodic inspection tours, commercial quantities of
unregistered drugs of an unknown source that were brought to the Kingdom by travelers,
are not subject to the transportation and storage requirements, and area not
analyzed by the Food and Drug Administration laboratories, and therefore are
not safe.
In order for someone to bring medicine from
abroad, the statement said, they need to provide a medical prescription, among
other things, according to the instructions for handling
unregistered drugs imported in non-commercial quantities for specific patients.
Dr Mohammad Al-Ababneh, president of the Jordanian
Pharmacists Association, told
Jordan News that the ban came in implementation
of Article 35 of the Drug and Pharmacy Law, and is not a new decision.
"Medications have storage
specifications, standards, specifications, and laboratory tests done by the
JDFA, and no medicine in Jordan is allowed to be traded except after it has
gone through several stages” and the storage, specifications, and
transportation measures were respected.
Some people bring medicines for chronic
diseases for the purpose of selling them online, Ababneh said, stressing that
the JFDA’s measures are taken to ensure the public’s safety.
Ababneh told
Jordan News: "Ordinary,
simple medicines are not a problem if they are in a reasonable quantity for a
person to use. Regarding medicines for chronic diseases, the traveler himself
must present the medical prescription so that he can be allowed to bring it
with him."
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