Jordan still bans meat imports from 8 European states

Jordan minister of health Tareq Sheimat said on Sunday that Jordan had banned the imports of meats and its by-products from 8 European countries since five years.

In press statements he made on Sunday in Amman he added " there are no fears after information published on that there are diseases in the French meats, because we do not import all these meats from each of France, Britain, Ireland, Switzerland, Portugal, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg since five years."

Minister Sheimat stressed that meats available at the Jordanian market is free from all these diseases and the Jordanian measures to this effect are adequate.