YEREVAN, MARCH 24, ARMENPRESS. State Food Security Service of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Armenia has banned the import of 19800 kg of frozen chicken minced meat, as it does not fit in the standards of food security. “Armenpress” was informed about this from the State Food Security Service of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Within the framework of border control the State Food Security Service sent the frozen chicken meat imported by “Meat Import” LLC from Ukraine for laboratory observation, which showed that the meat does not correspond with “listeria” benchmark defined by technical regulations on food security of the Eurasian Economic Union.

Considering the abovementioned, the import was banned.