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    FOOD SAFETY STANDARDS STILL VIOLATED IN ARMENIA

    arminfo
    2007-08-08 17:30:00

    State Veterinary and Food Safety Inspectorate, Ministry of Agriculture
    of Armenia, exposed a number of violations.

    Head of the Public Organization for Protection of Consumer' Rights
    Abgar Yeghoyan said at a press conference that only 6 of 500
    inspections did not expose violations. Thus, 400 cases of expired
    foodstuffs, 300 violations of temperature control, and 200 violations
    of food certificate were exposed.

    The above public organization also conducted similar inspections and
    exposed some 400 violations of food safety standards. In addition, the
    Health Ministry of Armenia has recently registered 2 cases of peracute
    food poisoning in 28 people in Ashtarak and 5 in Yerevan. World health
    Organizations reports on some 1,5 billion food poisonings in children
    worldwide every year, including 3 million lethal outcomes.

    Often street food trading becomes the reason of poising, Yeghoyan
    said. The problem is still acute in Armenia, he said. For this purpose,
    the Public Organization for Protection of Consumers' Rights proposed
    the Armenian Prime Minister to form a relevant inter-department
    commission. However, no response has been received so far, Yeghoyan
    said.
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