MOSCOW, October 4 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Federal Supervision Agency for Customer Protection and Human Welfare will check how Russian manufacturers which use Moldovan wine products comply with local legislation, agency head Gennady Onishchenko said on Monday.
"Continuing the previously stated policy of increasing access of Moldovan wine products to the Russian market, we intend to conduct inspections of Russian businesses, which specialize in the use of Moldovan wine products, in the nearest future," Onishchenko said.
"Our people will start working after receiving confirmation from the relevant Moldovan authorities and guarantees of their safety in that country. They will go there soon," he said.
Russia, previously the importer of 80 percent of all wine produced in Moldova, embargoed deliveries in March 2006. In 2007, over 40 Moldovan wine producing enterprises passed sanitation and epidemiological checks and supplies were resumed.
In April 2010, the service banned 47,000 litres of wine for safety reasons.
At the end of June, the agency declared the detection of pesticides and dibutilphthalates in Moldovan wine after Moldovan President Mihai Ghimpu declared June 28 the Day of Soviet Occupation. Onishchenko rejected any link between the department's actions and Moldovan authorities' policy.
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