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The food safety capacity building project was disccused

>On 26 March Armen Ayrapetyan, the Head of the State Service for Food Safety of MOA, RA (hereinafter SSFS) met Arusyak Alaverdyan, responsible specialist of World Bank agricultural projects, Ara Karapetyan, food safety expert of World Bank international financial corporation, Gagik Khachatryan, the director of ‘‘Agriculture Project Implementation’’ Unit State Institution of MOA, RA […]

By |March 27th, 2015|News, Partnership|0 Comments

A meeting with Lithuanian food business operators

On 24 March Gevorg Ghazaryan, the Head of the Agro-Processing Development Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Artur Melikyan, Chief Specialist of the Veterinary Inspection of the State Service for Food Safety met the Lithuanian food business operators.

The president of the veterinary medicine producing company “Ruvera” JSC in Lithuania and General Manager of animal […]

By |March 24th, 2015|News, Partnership, Veterinary inspection|0 Comments

Meeting in the scopes of regional research

On 24 March, a meeting was held between the representatives of the staff of the State Service for Food Safety of MOA, RA (hereinafter Service) and Lor Delkur, Professor of French Institute of International Relations.

During the meeting the possible progress of Armenia and EU cooperation in food safety enhancement was discussed, and the fact that […]

A Workshop in the framework of “One-Stop-Shop” project

On 23 March, 2015 a workshop was held between the representatives of the border control points of the State Service for food Safety of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Armenia (hereinafter Service), Customs Control Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Armenia and the contractors implementing the input […]

By |March 23rd, 2015|News|0 Comments

The State Service for Food Safety as a regulatory body

In a Cabinet session held today, the control issue of food safety sphere was discussed. The Armenian Government has toughened the safety norms of food supplied to kindergartens, schools and other educational institutions.

Changes were made in a number of decisions aimed at the strengthening of the control on sanitary rules and norms in the food […]

Issues on the control of brucellosis were discussed

On 10 March, Hovhannes Mkrtchyan, the Head of the Veterinary Inspection and Armen Vardanyan, the Head of the Strategy, Planning, Methodology and Monitoring Department of the Staff of the State Service for Food Safety of MOA, RA (hereinafter Service) welcomed the delegation headed by Valerie Ragan, Consultant of US Department of Agriculture, Director of the […]

By |March 10th, 2015|News, Partnership, Veterinary inspection|0 Comments

Clarification on export of fish and fish products

According to the mass media publication of 25 February the state bodies of the Russian Federation created an artificial barrier to export live fish and seafood from the Republic of Armenia into the Russian Federation.

We hereby inform you, that the export of fish and fish products from the Republic of Armenia into the Russian Federation […]

Food poisoning has not been detected

According to the information on March 2, 2015 four people from Tsovasar community have been hospitalized with the symptoms of “acute exogenous intoxication”.

The representatives from Gegharkunik marz center of the staff of the State Service for Food Safety have researched the circumstances of the incident and found out that it was а non-food poisoning.

After an […]

By |March 3rd, 2015|News|0 Comments

On export of honey to EU

On 23 February “1in.am” presented the comment of Telman Nazaryan, the president of “The National Beekeepers Association” NGO. According to the information provided by Mr. Nazaryan EU doesn’t accept honey produced in Armenia, as the use of “Bipin”, which is used as a medicine for treatment of bees in Armenia is prohibited in EU.

In this […]

The performance report during 2014 has been presented to the Prime Minister

On February 24 the report of the primary activities carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture during 2014, the action plan of the Government in 2014, the implementation of the priority issues and the assessed performance have been discussed in the Government chaired by Hovik Abrahamyan.

Armen Ayrapetyan, the Head of the State Service for Food […]