A veterinary-epidemiological monitoring was implemented by the State Service for Food Safety of MOA, RA (hereinafter Service) based on the alarm of the TV project “Sharp corner” of 18 October in “Yerevan City”, “SAS”, “Parma”, “Krpak”, “Nor Zovk” supermarket chains, as well as in production area of “Andre Renter” LLC, to verify the safety indicators of the poultry on sale.
In the scopes of the monitoring 21 samples of the imported and locally produced poultry were sent to laboratory testing. According to the testing results, violations were found in six of them. Fresh chicken produced by “Nubarashen Poultry Farm” OJSC (21.10.2015), frozen chicken legs produced by “Saratov Poultry Plant” LLC (importer -Amsa Imex LLC, 17.06.2015) and frozen chicken produced by “Kurnikov” LLC (importer -Amsa Imex LLC, 14.07.2015), chilled “Shushi” chicken produced by Andre Renter LLC (19.10.2015) and “Lusakert” chicken wing produced by “Agrotechinvest” LLC (14.10 .2015) with their bacteriological indicators and chilled “Teghakan” chicken produced by “Teghakhan” LLC (21.10.2015) with bacteriological and pathogenic salmonella indicators did not comply with the defined norms and requirements. No antibiotics were detected.
The Service has suspended the sale of the mentioned consignments. The specialists of the Service continue inspections in the poultry market, carrying out monitorings by the principle of traceability in “Teghakan” LLC to find out at what stage the poultry had been infected with salmonella.
It should be noted that 228 batches out of 365 ones of the poultry imported into the Republic of Armenia before November 1 were subjected to laboratory testing. Since July about 85 percent of the imported poultry has been sampled and tested before entering the territory of the Republic of Armenia.