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ARMENIA TO START HARMONIZING ITS AGRICULTURE WITH EU STANDARDS IN 2013
YEREVAN, December 27. /ARKA/. Armenia will start harmonizing its rural
products with European standards in 2013, the country's minister of
agriculture Sergo Karapetyan told ARKA Agency.
Serious efforts are currently made toward harmonization. The state
food safety service set up last year has departments dealing with
development of standards and compliance requirements, the minister
said.
The harmonization consists of three stages: first, training of
specialist, second, upgrade of technical facilities to make analyses
of any type, and third, approaching to the EU standards.
"First of all, this is important to ensure food safety for the
population and to ensure exports. We cannot say we don't know what we
eat, but often products appearing on the stalls have no labels and
expire date on them, producers cheat sometimes, whereas this system
will help exclude cases like that," Karapetyan said. -0-
YEREVAN, December 27. /ARKA/. Armenia will start harmonizing its rural
products with European standards in 2013, the country's minister of
agriculture Sergo Karapetyan told ARKA Agency.
Serious efforts are currently made toward harmonization. The state
food safety service set up last year has departments dealing with
development of standards and compliance requirements, the minister
said.
The harmonization consists of three stages: first, training of
specialist, second, upgrade of technical facilities to make analyses
of any type, and third, approaching to the EU standards.
"First of all, this is important to ensure food safety for the
population and to ensure exports. We cannot say we don't know what we
eat, but often products appearing on the stalls have no labels and
expire date on them, producers cheat sometimes, whereas this system
will help exclude cases like that," Karapetyan said. -0-