Moscow - Russia's list of complaints about the quality of products manufactured by Ukrainian confectionary corporation Roshen keeps growing, Gennady Onishchenko, head of the Russian consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor and Russia's chief epidemiologist, told Interfax on Tuesday.
“Our complaints stay in force. Moreover, their number keeps growing,” he said.
Rospotrebnadzor is currently examining products manufactured by Roshen’s factories in Vinnytsia and Mariupol, Onishchenko said.
Onishchenko told Interfax on August 12 that negotiations with a Ukrainian delegation might take place in Moscow this week, adding that he does not rule out the possibility of Roshen products returning to the Russian market.
“The negotiations may take place in Moscow on Thursday. The composition of the Ukrainian delegation has been announced to us through official channels,” Onishchenko said.
Ukraine’s economics and agriculture ministers are expected to come to Moscow, he said. Speaking about the prospects of return of products manufactured by the Ukrainian confectionery company Roshen to Russia, Onishchenko said: “If all the requirements are observed and if a system is made, we, of course, do not rule out their return.”
“However, it will take a lot of work. The quality needs to be stable and guaranteed,” Onishchenko said.
Onishchenko said he has already had phone consultations with his Ukrainian partners.
On July 29, Rospotrebnadzor banned imports of confectionary products manufactured by the Roshen company, which is one of the biggest confectionary makers in Ukraine, to the Russian market.
