AMMAN: The importing company of the controversial Polish wheat shipment reiterated that it meets national standards, calling for repeating the tests, but the Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA) said it cannot do so. At a meeting with the press on Wednesday, the general manager of Smart Solutions, Martin Hovhannisyan expressed his objection over the JFDA’s testing procedures, charging that they “violated legal sampling and testing measures”.
“Experts at the Industry and Trade Ministry said the quality of wheat in this shipment is the best that reached Jordan over the past 10 years, but the JFDA rejected the shipment as the six-kilogramme sample included three red grains,” he said. Hovhannisyan claimed that the JFDA did not provide any further details.
“We demand forming a committee with members from all concerned parties to take new samples and make new tests,” he said, adding that his company “was not allowed to defend its right in proving the shipment’s abidance by technical standard”.
