RUSSIA THREATENS BAN ON MOLDOVAN WINE
July 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIAN consumer protection authorities are threatening a ban on Moldovan wine, which the exporting country claims is purely political. Russia's chief sanitary inspector Gennady Onishchenko has attacked its quality, claiming "Moldovan wine should be used to paint fences" as customs officials this month impounded 170,000 bottles, claiming they contained too much dibutyl phthalate and metalaxyl. Onishchenko's Federal Consumer Protection Service is now warning it may ban Moldovan wine in Russia by August. The health claims have been ...
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