ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT SERIOUSLY APPROACH SAUSAGE MATTER

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.08.2009 21:54 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan held a meeting
to summarize the outcomes of the recent visit of Armenian delegation
to Indian meat processing plants.

Head of the State and Legal Department of the RA Government’s Ashot
Vahanyan informed, that the Armenian delegation visited India between
August 2 and 9, and particularly familiarized with the work of local
enterprises processing meat products. The delegation observed, that
most of the visited enterprises lack basic hygienic conditions, meat
is usually purchased from the uncontrolled territories, meat products
are transported in vehicles do not corresponding to sanitary-hygienic
norms.

Mainly buffalo meat is imported from India which is used in production
of sausages. He said, that there are a number of enterprises which
have all necessary conditions.

According to Tigran Sargsyan, these enterprises should have at least
5-year-experience and work in line with international standards, have
own slaughterhouses, as well as quality certificates. 17 companies,
covering 85 per cent of India’s meat market correspond to these
criteria. Meanwhile, only 21 per cent of meat delivered from India
to Armenia meet the above-mentioned criteria.

RA Ministry of agriculture is mandated to strengthen the control
over the imported meat products and jointly with the Revenue
committee to carry out work to identify and reveal violations by the
importer-companies, press service of the RA Government reports