BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
27/02/2008
Imported milk comply with international certificates and standards for its consumption: Venezuela
All the imported products, from Belarus to Venezuela, for its consumption, like the milk, are radiometrically analyzed and certified, as it was informed by the Director of the Nuclear Technology Unit of the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cinetificas ''IVIC'', Lilia Carrizales.
Caracas, Feb 26 ABN.- During a telephonic interview offered to the program En Confianza, broadcast by the state-run television channel Venezolana de Television (VTV), Lilia Carrizales made reference to a press note published in a local newspaper (El Nuevo Pais), which stated that National Government is importing contaminated milk. She pointed out that "this is an absolutely groundless news and far away from reality".
"Venezuelan Government is carrying out an extremely significant job to be sure about the quality of the milk that is being imported to the country, through the Ministry of Food, the Supply Corporation and Agricultural Services (CASA, Spanish abbreviation), Mercal (Food Markets), and ourselves as representatives of the Ministry of Science and technology", she said.
Carrizales assured that before importing the milk to Venezuela "a commission was sent to Belarus to carry out the studies to the milk. The results showed that the milk is fit for human consumption".
Regarding the headline published by El Nuevo Pais, Carrizales said: "I want to tell Venezuelan people with certainty and security based on all the analysis we have carried out and we are carrying out that the National Government is guaranteeing the food sovereignty for Venezuelan people and it is carrying out all the analysis responsibly and all the imported products are certified by metrologic laboratories internationally accredited".
Carrizales added that "no milk or consumption product is imported to Venezuela if it is not previously certified".
According to the person interviewed by the said newspaper, the milk is contaminated because Belarus is near Chernobyl's plant, where the nuclear explosion took place 22 years ago".
In this sense, Lilia Carrizales stated that "because Belarus is next to Ukraine, where the accident took place 22 years ago, there was obviously a risk of contamination, indeed near zones were contaminated. That is the reason to carry out radiometric studies to the products imported from Belarus".
Carrizales stressed that "milk analysis were compared with international standards and it was determined that the milk did not have cesium 137 or strontium 90, which are the isotopes produced by nuclear fissions".
Translated by Ernesto Aguilera
Source:
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=583456
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