The products did not meet organoleptic, physico-chemical or safety requirements, the paper wrote, and the measure rests on a decision of the Eurasian Economic Commission’s Council, the Eurasian union’s executive, whose rules apply to any goods sold in Russia whatever their origin. A representative of one of the largest retail chains confirmed receiving the letter, it added.
Georgia Today reported the same day, citing local media that quote the letter, that it is dated 9 October, cites article 5, paragraph 4 of the Customs Union’s technical regulation on food safety, the same union’s standard for anything sold on its market, and tells recipients to withdraw the products from circulation at once. Neither account prints a duration.
A representative of one of the largest retail chains confirmed receiving the letter, it added.
No reaction from the Georgian government or the National Wine Agency had appeared on Interpressnews, Georgia Today or Newsgeorgia by Monday morning. The order lands on the day EU foreign ministers discuss Georgia under current affairs at their council in Luxembourg, by the Council’s agenda, and neither the paper nor the Georgian outlets connect the two.
The order reached retailers as a letter, the paper says, and neither account says how it applies at the border. Rospotrebnadzor’s own news page carried no notice of it on Monday morning.