Russia's Federal Service for Health and Consumer Rights (Rospotrebnadzor) has charged that almost all the product made by the Ukrainian confectionery corporation Roshen is not up to par and makes note of the non-fulfillment by Ukraine of agreements to harmonize the product-quality control system.
“The Federal Service for Health and Consumer Rights continues to study confectionery product produced at the factories of the confectionery corporation Roshen. More than ninety percent of the studied confectionery goods did not comply with normative requirements,” the service said in a Tuesday statement.
“The main reason the confectionery goods are non-compliant is the unfulfillment of law in the field of protecting the rights of consumers (requirements as to labeling food product – non-correspondence of information about the nutritional value of product given on the label),” the statement says.
At the present time, the possibility of meeting with the appropriate Ukrainian agencies responsible for observing the requirements of Russian law concerning the quality and safety of food products with the delivery to the Russian Federation of confectionery products made at Roshen factories.
On July 29, Rospotrebnadzor imposed a ban on imports of Roshen products over quality concerns. The corporation denies its goods are not up to standard.
The Committee for State Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision at the Kazakh Health Ministry has inspected seven types of confectionery produced by Ukraine’s Roshen Corporation, and benzopyrene was not found, the chairman of the committee, Zhandarbek Bekshin, said at a briefing in Astana on Monday.
Roshen operates confectionery factories in Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Mariupol and Kremenchuk, the Bershadmoloko dairy producer, and also confectionery facilities in Klaipeda, Lithuania and Lipetsk, Russia.
The company produces as many as 200 types of products. Its total annual production volume is up to 410,000 tonnes. Roshen exports its products to Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the United States, Canada, Germany and Israel.
