Armenia’s Food Safety Inspection Body said inspectors found batches with falsified expiry dates or missing Armenian labels at two Yerevan shopping centers. The ban applies to those batches, not all Kinder products.
Sole source: Armenia’s Food Safety Inspection Body said on 6 November that it had banned sales of Kinder-labelled sweets batches found with falsified expiry dates or without Armenian labels at Yerevan’s Surmalu and Petak shopping centers. Retailers may no longer sell the identified batches.
The body said the inspection followed a report alleging that the sweets were being sold, particularly at Surmalu, without documents certifying their safety, without Armenian labels and with altered expiry dates. The body said inspectors found falsified dates and missing labels; it did not say they found missing safety documents.
In its notice, the inspection body said it checked labels, expiry dates, storage conditions, batch identification and compliance with sales requirements. It did not give batch identifiers or quantities, name sellers or mention illnesses.
The body urged businesses receiving goods from suppliers to check expiry dates for falsification, demand accompanying documents and ensure products have Armenian labels. It asked shoppers who see Kinder-labelled sweets with altered dates or missing Armenian labels to call its 118 hotline, which operates around the clock.
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