Food dealers call for combining oversight agencies

By JT - Apr 09,2016 - Last updated at Apr 09,2016

AMMAN — Importers and merchants of food items have criticised multiplicity of oversight actors in the sector, calling for unifying these parties to facilitate the sector’s work, the Foodstuff Traders Association (FTA) said Saturday.

At the annual meeting of the FTA’s general assembly, they said it is no longer acceptable for more than eight institutions to continue monitoring and inspecting importers and traders’ warehouses, shops, malls and food factories, according to an FTA statement.

FTA members also criticised “weak monitoring procedures” in some development zones, saying some merchants use these zones as a cover to avoid customs, which “harmed law-abiding merchants, the statement added.

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