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Ammon
18-05-2025
- Health
- Ammon
Drug prices committee meets to reduce drugs prices
Ammon News - A committee tasked with reviewing drug prices in local market will meet on Sunday to discuss reducing the price of a new drug package over the next two months. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA) Director General Nizar Mheidat said that he asked the committee not to consider the prices of medicines under JD10 and to focus on higher-priced medicines. Mheidat explained that medicines are subject to periodic re-pricing and re-registration, indicating that the prices of 848 pharmaceutical items will be reduced in 2022, 698 in 2023, and 626 in 2024, out of a total of 9,000 pharmaceutical items registered in Jordan.
Jordan Times
24-03-2025
- Health
- Jordan Times
JFDA: 90 new medicines registered to achieve Jordan's drug security
AMMAN — The Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA) has approved registration of 90 medicines, aimed to achieve Jordan's drug security, in accordance with the 2024 Special Drug Registration Instructions. In a statement Sunday, JFDA Director General, Dr. Nizar Mheidat, said the administration received 147 registration applications on the Drug Security List from relevant warehouses and local manufacturing companies. Mheidat added that the drug items approved for registration are mainly life-saving medications for chronic diseases, heart illnesses and cancer, including medicines required for government tenders or the local market and are unavailable locally. Mheidat noted the JFDA is "continuously" working to update these items based on drug inventory indicators and spur local pharmaceutical companies to manufacture and register medicines that may see shortages in their supply to the local market. Mheidat stated this process encourages companies to prioritize registration, inspection, and the necessary technical consultations when submitting their applications. Meanwhile, he indicated that some applications are still pending to complete submission of the necessary documents.
Ammon
25-02-2025
- Health
- Ammon
Morning, evening tours of markets during Ramadan, JFDA says
Ammon News - The Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA) announced its control and awareness plan in preparation for the month of Ramadan and in continuation of periodic efforts throughout the year, to ensure the flow of safe and sound food to citizens and to continue control tours around the clock within a special program for morning and evening shifts to implement field tours and collect samples of food circulating in the markets and follow up on all complaints and observations received through various means of communication and deal with them as quickly as possible. In a press statement on Tuesday, JFDA Director General Nizar Mheidat, indicated that the plan includes mechanisms to simplify procedures and enhance the efficiency of completing transactions by the organization's cadres in customs centers and intensify efforts to detect, withdraw samples and analyze them in laboratories to ensure the flow of food supplies, especially Ramadan goods.
