DUSHANBE, October 16, Asia-Plus -- 4,300 inspections carried out by Tojikstandart (Tajikistan’s Agency for Standardization, Metrology, Certification and Trade Inspection) over the first nine months of this year have recorded some 2,360 instances of violation of standardization requirements and country’s laws, the deputy Tojikstandart director, Ibodullo Qurbonov, announced at a news conference in Dushanbe on October 16.  

According to him, 223 entities have been fined a total of more than 28,000 somonis for failing to satisfy the standardization requirements.  

            “Over the report period, the agency’s labs have checked some 26,000samples of food products, of them, 1,200 or 4.5 percent have been found to not meet appropriate standards of quality,” said Qurbonov, “Thus, the labs have culled 772.3 tons of wheat flour, 11.54 tons of vegetable oil, 4,282 tons bread products, 11.9 tons of macaronis, and 21.1 tons of confectioneries.”     

In all, the agency has inspected 2,205 enterprises over the report period, which is some 10 percent more than in January-September 2006.