ARMENIA TO INTRODUCE TOUGHER INSPECTION OF FOOD AND PRODUCTS, POSING
RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTH
YEREVAN, APRIL 1, ARMENPRESS: Armenian trade and economic
development ministry said today it is going to introduce a set of
tougher supervision measures concerning foodstuff, products, goods and
services which potentially may pose risk to public health.
Robert Dayan, head of standardization and measurmeent department,
said the ministry will implement extensive inspections throughout the
year of foodstuff, chemical substances, cosmetics, oil prodcuts.
Dayan said the supervision will be manyfold- beginning from the
process of manufacturing, tramnsportation and ending with their
sale. He said the plan of measures was developed based on last year’s
findings, which revealed that though the majority of doemstically made
and imported food meets safety requirements, packaging of many
Armenia-made foodstuuf failed to meet some of these standards.