CHISINAU-MOSCOW WINE CONSULTATIONS SET FOR FRIDAY
29.07.2010
Moldova and Russia have agreed to hold in Moscow on July 30 a consultative meeting on the supply of Moldovan wines to the Russian market. The RosPotrebNadzor [Russian federal supervisory agency for consumer goods quality] has had serious questions to the quality of the wines lately.
The Russian mass media have reported today that Moldovan Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Russia Andrei Neguta is preparing to hand in an essential document to RosPotrebNadzor – Chisinau’s official position on the wine situation, bearing in mind that July 30 is the deadline, until which the federal agency will be waiting for the Moldovan authorities’ written program of how they are going to ensure a high quality of the wines they want to sell in Russia.
Gennady Onishenko, RosPotrebNadzor Director and Russia’s Chief Federal Sanitary Inspector, seems to be fairly skeptical about the significance of this Friday’s meeting with Moldova representatives. Kommersant quoted him as saying that, so far, there exists no information that would say that relevant Moldovan governmental structures are undertaking any tangible measures to normalize the situation.
Gennady Onishenko has confirmed the intention to return to Moldova 544,884 bottles of “poor-quality wines” and over 960 thousand liters of Moldovan wine materials and brandies under the pretext of discovery of some substances in them that are harmful for Russians’ health.
“However, neither the Moldovan authorities nor a single importer of Moldovan wines to Russia has yet received from RosPotrebNadzor an official laboratory conclusion that the wines contain dibutylphthalate”, wrote Kommersant.
In particular, Georgii Ivanov, the Director General of a prominent Russian wine importing company called Yantarnaya Grozd [Amber Grape], stated that no analyses for dibutylphthalate have been made in Moscow at all. And chemists from the Moldovan Academy of Sciences, who have analyzed 180 wine specimens, have revealed that the dibutylphthalate content in them is several times lower than even in usual potable water in cities.
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