Russia’s chief sanitary inspector Gennady Onishenko has recommended that the country’s customs service ban the import of wine from Georgia and Moldova, citing “violation requirements of state sanitary-epidemiological rules and norms.”
In a letter sent to the head of the Russian customs service Aleksandr Zherikhov on March 25, the chief Russian sanitary inspector says inspection has revealed that “60% of the examined wines imported from these countries [Georgia and Moldova] in Moscow alone fail to meet requirements set by sanitary-epidemiological rules and norms on safety conditions.”
The letter also says that the Russia’s chief sanitary will stop issuing “sanitary-epidemiological conclusions” for Georgian and Moldovan wines starting from March 27.