Georgia to improve market supervision and food safety standards
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Georgia is improving the country’s environment for fair enterprise competition and safeguarding consumers’ rights, while strengthening efficiency in supervision.
Georgia’s Economy Minister Dimitry Kumsishvili today announced that amendments will be made to the consumer product safety code.
The amendments will oblige the state to check whether there is compliance in the labeling of genetically modified products.
In Georgia, all products that contain genetically modified components must have proper labels informing consumers of their contents. A law which forces labelling of genetically modified food products came into play in Georgia on July 1, 2015.
The new law will ensure that products are carefully inspected according to their label.
The law regulates the type of information that must be written on the label. Specifically, if genetically modified components are 0.9 percent more than the product’s total mass, a label stating "GM” must be clearly identified on the top left corner of the product.
The Minister explained that the consumers should know that they buy the product that really contains those materials that are written on its label. This way, the Minister says, the consumers’ rights will be protected and also the producers will have a fair environment for competition.
Georgia will receive €50 million from the European Union to improve national food safety standards.
A new phytosanitary laboratory has opened in Georgia to allow the country to strengthen its food safety and phytosanitary control on plant pests.
The Georgian market is free from genetically modified products imported from abroad, says a new report by the National Food Agency.
Georgia is taking action to promote products made from natural milk, while safeguarding consumers’ rights and balancing competition between milk producing companies.
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Georgia is working on protecting and improving the quality of Georgian produce and making it more popular by launching a new regulation on ‘Rule for the Use of the Quality Mark’.
Inspection groups from the National Food Agency are inspecting seasonal fruits and vegetables across the country, taking samples from various retail outlets and produce markets to determine the concentration of nitrates in freshly harvested fruits and vegetables.
The National Food Agency of Georgia has fined and suspended 15 food facilities in the Black Sea coastline region of Adjara after inspections revealed “critical inconsistency” with safety, sanitary and other regulations.
The Investigation Service of Georgia’s Finance Ministry has charged two individuals for selling expired foreign-made chocolate products that included "microorganisms harmful to human health", the state body said on Tuesday.