NO LABEL FOR BREAD WEIGHT
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[08:40 pm] 18 November, 2008
When we tried to find out the weight of bread in some stores in central
Yerevan, store clerks told us to weigh the bread on a scale. However,
starting from November 15, the stores where bread is sold without
the required label (including weight and price) must be fined and
the fine ranges from 50,000 to 300,000 drams.
Let us recall that this is what head of the State Veterinary Service
of the Ministry of Agriculture Grisha Baghiyan stated a couple of
days ago.
According to him, if the label doesn’t include the weight and price
of bread, the one responsible for that is the bread store owner. If
it turns out that the weight of the bread is less, the person held
accountable is the bread producer.
Out of the 10 stores that we visited, four stores did not have
the label.
"We don’t know about that. Nobody told us. Let them bring the prices,
give the weight and we will put the label," said Anahit, one of the
store clerks.
Aren’t you afraid of fines? In response to that, one of the store
clerks said: "They don’t do everything they say they’re going to
do. They might not even know where we are. What do consumers have to
say about this?"