Apples from Azerbaijan being sold in stores in Armenia (Source: News.am)
BY ARA KHACHATOURIAN
Residents of Armenia took to social media to point out and express their anger that apples from Azerbaijan were being sold at stores across Yerevan and surrounding cities.
Armenia’s national food safety board (SSFS), upon learning of the Azerbaijani apples, launched an investigation and set up a hotline for people to call in the event they spot those apples at their local grocery store.
The SSFS also reported that Armenia’s Customs Service did not clear any shipments from Azerbaijan and added that from April 1 to April 25 apples were imported into Armenia from Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and Italy. The body also filed relevant paperwork with government agencies and ministries to get to the bottom of this apple infiltration.
We have to pause here and state that apples are not the only Azerbaijani products that rear their ugly heads at Armenian grocery stores. In January, concerned parents reported an abundance baby formula from Azerbaijan on grocery shelves.
In fact, there is also several social media pages that are devoted to “Made in Armenia”
