NATIONAL STANDARD FOR GROUND COFFEE DEVELOPED

ArmenPress
June 17 2004

YEREVAN, JUNE 17, ARMENPRESS: A recently founded National Academy
of Consumers said today it has developed a new national standard of
ground coffee that is being now reconciled with appropriate bodies.
An expert of the Academy said none of the applied normative documents
specifies the permitted level of humidity of coffee. She added that
the new coffee standard has been brought in compliance with European
standards. The new standard was developed in cooperation with local
producers of ground coffee.

The expert said introduction of this standard will allow tax
authorities to introduce some changes. In case of a higher level of the
permitted humidity standard customs officers may ban its import into
the country, as micro-toxic agents begin developing in humid coffee.

A recent examination of the quality of locally produced ground coffee
revealed that virtually all of them contained toxic agents.