DUSHANBE, October 2, Asia-Plus  -- Some 13 tons of Iranian subquality confectionery have been destroyed in Dushanbe, Mirzoali Abdulloyev, a spokesman for the Agency for Standardization, Metrology, Certification and Trade Inspection, Tojikstandart, said in an interview with Asia-Plus.   

According to him, the agency on September 24 received a letter from Iranian entrepreneur Mansour Garavi Roudsari, asking to test a bulk of confectionery that was delivered to Tajikistan from Iran in August 2006.  “He asked the agency to grant him a certificate for further realization of the product,” said the spokesman.  “The test has shown that the expiration date of the product is overdue and it is not fit for realization.”    

12.7 tons of the confectionery were kept in a storehouse of motor poll # 6 in Dushanbe in unsanitary conditions.