Jordan bans the imports of fodder

The Jordanian ministry of agriculture has banned the entry of fodder concentrates of Italian origin from entering Jordan and stopped it at al-Aqaba port in preparation to return back them to its source.

Sources at the Jordanian ministry of agriculture stressed that this shipment which is estimated at hundreds of tons of concentrated Fodor's were imported by several Jordanian companies working in this field and that halting this shipment came on the background of the spread of the " Mad-Cow " disease in several European countries and the decision of the Jordanian government to halt the imports of milk and meat and their by- products and the fodder concentrates from the infected countries.

The sources explained that the ministry's sources explained that the ministry laboratories were made on samples from the shipment.