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Egg Warning: Consumers urged to use caution in selecting September-issued eggs
Health | 28.09.12 | 15:22
By Gohar Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
On Thursday the Ministry of Agriculture's State Food Safety Service
(SFSS) released a statement warning consumers against using Armenia's
biggest poultry factory-produced eggs.
The monitoring of eggs by SFSS employees revealed that
September15-labeled eggs by the Yerevan Poultry Factory (YPF) did not
meet the eggshell cleanness requirements, the white did not have the
sufficient density, the yolk did not hold (it spread after breaking
the egg), and there was odor indicating expiration.
The Service asked to be alert and not to use the production of that company.
YPF refused ArmeniaNow's request for an explanation or comment.
Chairman of the National Association of Consumers Melita Hakobyan told
the press on Friday that for a month consumers had been complaining of
spoilt eggs.
`We took measures to prevent bad eggs from being marketed; we even
talked to the head of the manufacturers' union, as well as many
economic entities. There was an agreement that if any company sells
bad eggs it would be fined 500,000 drams (about $1,235),' says
Hakobyan.
She says there haven't been reported cases of food poisoning and
assured that today there aren't expired eggs on sale in the market.
`After receiving the alerting reports our seven-member staff audited a
number of shops in the country, met with a number of producers, did
onsite check of products and took the bad ones out of sale,' says
Hakobyan.
Expired eggs are not uncommon in the Armenian market.
Hakobyan says that some four years ago, when there was egg surplus in
the country and a lot of eggs went bad, the government of Armenia
agreed with the producers that egg-drying equipment and technology
would be imported and the surplus of eggs to be expired would be
dried. Hakobyan says it was a good plan that would solve the issue,
but unfortunately it has not been implemented.
Health | 28.09.12 | 15:22
By Gohar Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
On Thursday the Ministry of Agriculture's State Food Safety Service
(SFSS) released a statement warning consumers against using Armenia's
biggest poultry factory-produced eggs.
The monitoring of eggs by SFSS employees revealed that
September15-labeled eggs by the Yerevan Poultry Factory (YPF) did not
meet the eggshell cleanness requirements, the white did not have the
sufficient density, the yolk did not hold (it spread after breaking
the egg), and there was odor indicating expiration.
The Service asked to be alert and not to use the production of that company.
YPF refused ArmeniaNow's request for an explanation or comment.
Chairman of the National Association of Consumers Melita Hakobyan told
the press on Friday that for a month consumers had been complaining of
spoilt eggs.
`We took measures to prevent bad eggs from being marketed; we even
talked to the head of the manufacturers' union, as well as many
economic entities. There was an agreement that if any company sells
bad eggs it would be fined 500,000 drams (about $1,235),' says
Hakobyan.
She says there haven't been reported cases of food poisoning and
assured that today there aren't expired eggs on sale in the market.
`After receiving the alerting reports our seven-member staff audited a
number of shops in the country, met with a number of producers, did
onsite check of products and took the bad ones out of sale,' says
Hakobyan.
Expired eggs are not uncommon in the Armenian market.
Hakobyan says that some four years ago, when there was egg surplus in
the country and a lot of eggs went bad, the government of Armenia
agreed with the producers that egg-drying equipment and technology
would be imported and the surplus of eggs to be expired would be
dried. Hakobyan says it was a good plan that would solve the issue,
but unfortunately it has not been implemented.