Diana Crudu, of the National Farmers Federation, in the name of the Federation requested to set up a parliamentary commission that would monitor the actions of the National Food Safety Agency and to publicly assume a deadline by which the producers will have access to an accredited phytosanitary lab so as to be able to sell on foreign markets, IPN reports.
In a news conference held alongside PAS MP Vladimir Bolea, Diana Crudu said the foreign donors at their own expense equipped a lab whose certificates are recognized by the EU. “The poor management of the National Food Safety Agency, the lack of interest and their non-professionalism, the absence of approaches to the EU institutions that can accredit this lab, the permanent excuse that “they do not accredit us because they don’t like us” instead of starting to fulfill all the conditions imposed by the EU in terms of traceability and safety of meat products brought the meat producers in the Republic of Moldova close to despair,” said the representative of the National Farmers Federation.
For his part, Vladimir Bolea proposed instating a working group involving representatives of donors, under the aegis of the Government or the Ministry of Economy, for offering assistance in drafting and promoting normative documents related to the activities of the institutions founded by the National Food Safety Agency, especially as regards the simplification of the process of homologating and registering phytosanitary products, and the methodology and nomenclature of the services provided by these entities.
