Jordan allows hemp seed foods with THC limits and label restrictions

Jordan’s 2023 product instructions permitted specified hemp seed foods while limiting their THC content and restricting labels and advertising. Producers had to use hulled, nonviable seeds from plants meeting a separate low-THC limit, and seed oil had to carry a warning that it was unsuitable for cooking.

Seed foods received their own rules within CBD regulation

Health Minister Firas Hawari signed instructions covering CBD preparations, extracts and oils, including prescription products, cosmetics and medical devices. A separate food section dealt with hemp seeds and products made from them.

The wider drug law prohibited controlled plants and seeds except through authorised handling. The 2021 amendment had expressly allowed plant and seed licensing under regulations.

The food instructions identified hulled seeds that could no longer germinate. Their conditions applied to those seeds and the listed food products made from them, including oil, beverages, flour and protein products.

The crop and the finished food had different THC limits

The source hemp plant had to contain no more than 0.1% THC in its leaves and flowering tops. Finished foods then had to meet the separate limits in the instructions’ annex.

Food	Maximum THC	Maximum CBD
Hulled seeds or hemp hearts	5 mg/kg	75 mg/kg
Hemp seed oil	10 mg/kg	75 mg/kg
Hemp seed milk or beverage	0.2 mg/kg	75 mg/kg
Hemp flour, protein or seed cake	5 mg/kg	75 mg/kg

The annex also addressed other foods containing these ingredients, requiring compliance with the relevant ingredient limits. Producers therefore had to check the particular food category as well as the characteristics of the source crop.

Packaging could not promote the cannabis plant

Labels and advertising could not promote the hemp plant or make claims about psychoactive effects. Images of the plant were prohibited, with an exception for pictures of the seeds.

These restrictions shaped how a manufacturer could present a permitted seed food to customers. The rules paired permission to use the ingredient with limits on marketing it through cannabis imagery or intoxication claims.

Seed oil also required a specific label saying it was unsuitable for cooking. That condition sat alongside the numerical THC and CBD ceilings for the oil itself.

Food permissions sat beside the criminal cultivation rules

The food route concerned specified seed ingredients, their composition and their presentation to buyers. Controlled plant cultivation and supply continued under the drug law’s licensing and criminal provisions.

Together with the prescription CBD rules, the food instructions added detailed product regulation to Jordan’s cannabis rules. For food producers, compliance depended on the seed’s viability, the source crop, the finished product’s test results and its packaging.^[1][2]