Roshen Confectionery Corporation, one of the largest manufacturers of confectionery in Ukraine, has said that Russia's Federal Service for Health and Consumer Rights (Rospotrebnadzor) has no official claims to the quality of its confectionery products that are supplied to the Russian market.
“Roshen Corporation has always complied with all rules of certification for confectionery products and performed all of the necessary sanitary standards, observing the requirements of the Ukrainian and Russian state regulatory documents,” the corporation said in a statement on July 11, 2013.
In addition, the company said that it had currently received no remarks from Russian certifying organizations.
“All plants of Roshen Corporation are provided with equipment to monitor the quality of products and conduct respective studies,” reads the statement.
The corporation noted that it has supplied products to Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the United States, Canada, Germany, Israel and a number of other countries for 15 years and had not received any complaints from customs services regarding violations of the order for the registration of cargo or its customs clearance during the crossing of the border.
Roshen said that it is ready for constructive cooperation with all regulatory and inspection bodies, including from Russia, in order to consider their complaints.
As reported, Rospotrebnadzor Head Gennady Onishchenko told Interfax on July 11 that Rospotrebnadzor had expressed its concern over the quality of Ukrainian confectionery products.
“The service has recently been increasingly concerned over the quality of confectionery products coming from Ukraine. In the first place, questions are raised by the product of Roshen,” Onishchenko said.
Roshen owns confectionery factories in Kyiv, Mariupol (Donetsk region), Kremenchuk (Poltava region), two factories in Vinnytsia, the Bershadmoloko dairy factory and Litynsky cattle breeding farm (both in Vinnytsia region), as well as the Lipetsk confectionery in Russia and the Klaipeda confectionery in Lithuania.
The corporation produces 200 types of confectionery products: chocolate and jelly candies, caramel, chocolate, biscuits, wafers, biscuit Swiss rolls and cakes. Its total production reaches 410,000 tonnes of confectionery per year.
