The National Food Safety Agency (ANSA) has identified a non-conforming consignment of imported butter, which has been returned. Within the programme on monitoring and supervision in the field of safety and quality of animal origin food products in 2022, ANSA detected a batch of imported butter of 11 tons, which did not meet the sanitary…
Lithuanian beer with a production date after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine is still available in the Russian market. According to producers, their beer is transported to Russia without their knowledge. Recently, activist Oleg Surajev has published a video showing the beer of Lithuanian producer Volfas Engelman being loaded onto a truck with…
Khmilnytske LLC of Astarta-Kyiv agri-industrial holding has successfully started sugar beets harvesting. “This is an important event for the agricultural company, because it initiates not only the sugar beet harvesting campaign, it guarantees the start of the sugar-refining season. We congratulate our farmers with this long-awaited event! All their efforts and aspirations are translated into…
This year, sugar beet processing season for agricultural producers was better than for Gnidava sugar refinery, because when growing a good crop, $2-3 thousand of net profit could be received from each hectare of sugar beets last year, the deputy director of the company Oleksandr Nikishyn said. “Sugar beet is a good crop, its profitability…
The National Agency for Food Safety (ANSA) announced on September 5 that as part of the monitoring and supervision program in the safety and quality control of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic production, wine products and beer, samples of wines bottled in PET (polyethylene terephthalate) were taken, which were cataloged as not meeting the requirements of the…
Georgia’s National Food Agency has detected excessive lead in four types of spices out of 197 samples tested, the state body announced on August 31. The results came following examination of samples of various products, with the Agency also clearing over 250 samples of food products of animal origin after the samples – including food…
Poland was one of the EU’s three biggest beer producers in 2021, Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, reported on August 30. Last year, just as in 2020, Germany was the top producer with 7.5 billion litres. This represents 23% of the total EU production of 33.1 billion litres of beer containing alcohol. Germany was followed…