Armenian agency orders additional tests for some imported foods
13.08.2013,
18:48
Armenia’s State Food Safety Service, an affiliation of the Ministry of Agriculture, said it has ordered additional lab tests for a string of foods imported from Brazil, Belarus, the Netherlands, the U.S. and New Zealand, which may have E.coli and salmonella pathogen.
YEREVAN, August 13. / ARKA /. Armenia’s State Food Safety Service, an affiliation of the Ministry of Agriculture, said it has ordered additional lab tests for a string of foods imported from Brazil, Belarus, the Netherlands, the U.S. and New Zealand, which may have E.coli and salmonella pathogen.
The State Food Safety Service said if the invoices for the goods conform with Armenian law requirements, the imported goods will not be subjected to additional laboratory examination.
"However, given media reports that frozen and canned meat, imported from Brazil as well as smoked meat and cottage cheese brought from Belarus, poultry meat brought from the Netherlands, fish brought from the U.S. and lamb from New Zealand may have E. coli and salmonella pathogen, the head of the State Food Safety Service ordered August 13 that all border checkpoints of the agency conduct additional laboratory tests of these products," the agency said in a statement. -0-
The State Food Safety Service said if the invoices for the goods conform with Armenian law requirements, the imported goods will not be subjected to additional laboratory examination.
"However, given media reports that frozen and canned meat, imported from Brazil as well as smoked meat and cottage cheese brought from Belarus, poultry meat brought from the Netherlands, fish brought from the U.S. and lamb from New Zealand may have E. coli and salmonella pathogen, the head of the State Food Safety Service ordered August 13 that all border checkpoints of the agency conduct additional laboratory tests of these products," the agency said in a statement. -0-
