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BAD EGGS: STATE SERVICE SAYS IMPORTED PRODUCT "CONSEQUENCE OF NEGLIGENCE"
http://armenianow.com/society/51958/consumer_rights_armenia_food_safety_service
SOCIETY | 12.02.14 | 15:48
NAZIK ARMENAKYAN
ArmeniaNow
By Gohar Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Expired eggs on sale in the Armenian market that have stirred
discussions are the result of economic entities' negligence, says
the Agriculture Ministry's Food Safety State Service.
Market monitoring has been launched following complaints and
publications in the press claiming that imported expired eggs are on
sale in shops in Armenia with three months expiration dates.
Vahe Danielyan, head of the food manufacturing control department at
the Agriculture Ministry's Food Safety State Service, told the press on
Wednesday that the monitoring had revealed expired eggs and eggs with
poorly visible labels stating the production/expiration dates, adding
that the violation was not wide-spread and was rapidly eliminated.
"The monitoring is ongoing across the country; we do not penalize yet,
simply warn to remove them from sale, if they fail to do that then
sanctions are applied. The emergence of expired eggs on sale can be
the consequence of a chain of inadvertences. The amount discovered,
however, is so small that we can claim it was purely the consequence
of negligence," says Danielyan, adding that according to the Armenian
norms eggs are good to be used for 25 days from the day of production,
while the imported eggs had 60 days' expiration dates in compliance
with the norms of the country that had exported them.
Danielyan says 15 companies in Armenia import eggs from the Ukraine,
Turkey, and Iran. During the first two months this year more than
1.6 million eggs have been imported. In 2013, Armenia produced 615.2
million and imported around 18 million eggs.
http://armenianow.com/society/51958/consumer_rights_armenia_food_safety_service
SOCIETY | 12.02.14 | 15:48
NAZIK ARMENAKYAN
ArmeniaNow
By Gohar Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Expired eggs on sale in the Armenian market that have stirred
discussions are the result of economic entities' negligence, says
the Agriculture Ministry's Food Safety State Service.
Market monitoring has been launched following complaints and
publications in the press claiming that imported expired eggs are on
sale in shops in Armenia with three months expiration dates.
Vahe Danielyan, head of the food manufacturing control department at
the Agriculture Ministry's Food Safety State Service, told the press on
Wednesday that the monitoring had revealed expired eggs and eggs with
poorly visible labels stating the production/expiration dates, adding
that the violation was not wide-spread and was rapidly eliminated.
"The monitoring is ongoing across the country; we do not penalize yet,
simply warn to remove them from sale, if they fail to do that then
sanctions are applied. The emergence of expired eggs on sale can be
the consequence of a chain of inadvertences. The amount discovered,
however, is so small that we can claim it was purely the consequence
of negligence," says Danielyan, adding that according to the Armenian
norms eggs are good to be used for 25 days from the day of production,
while the imported eggs had 60 days' expiration dates in compliance
with the norms of the country that had exported them.
Danielyan says 15 companies in Armenia import eggs from the Ukraine,
Turkey, and Iran. During the first two months this year more than
1.6 million eggs have been imported. In 2013, Armenia produced 615.2
million and imported around 18 million eggs.