Rospotrebnadzor, which has banned the supply of Ukrainian confectionary producer Roshen, has no problem with the quality of confectionery products manufactured under this brand name in Lipetsk and Klaipeda, Lithuania, Rospotrebnadzor Director Gennady Onishchenko told reporters.
“We currently have no problem with the Lipetsk factory. We currently have no questions regarding Klaipeda, either,” he said.
Onishchenko reiterated that Rospotrebnadzor has questions about the
quality of Roshen products manufactured in Ukraine, but no questions
regarding their safety.
“We are not talking about safety, we are talking about the quality of
these products. If you say this chocolate contains this much protein,
this much fat, etc., you need to keep within those parameters. The
situation with benzopyrene shows that the cocoa beans used in the
production of the firm’s chocolate were of very poor quality,” he said.
The Russian sanitary services have banned the supply to Russia of
products manufactured by the confectionery corporation Roshen,
Onishchenko said on Monday.
Onishchenko told Interfax on July 11 the Russian sanitary services
had a problem with the quality of the confectionery products supplied
from Ukraine.
Roshen operates confectionery factories in Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Mariupol
and Kremenchuk, as well as the Bershadmoloko dairy producer, a stud farm
in Ukraine and also confectionary facilities in Klaipeda, Lithuania and
Lipetsk, Russia. The company produces up to 200 types of
confectionaries. Its total annual production volume reaches 410,000
tonnes.
