From September 1, the Food Safety Service will Strictly Inspect Flower Shipments Exported from Armenia

From September 1, the Food Safety Inspectorate of Armenia will begin strict inspections of flower shipments being exported. This was announced today during a meeting with reporters by Arthur Nikoyan, head of the plant quarantine department of the Food Safety Inspectorate.

The Rosselkhoznadzor announced on June 16 that among 80 flower shipments supplied from Armenia to Russia in June 2025, violations were found in 78. The organization expressed serious concerns regarding the significant increase in the volume of flowers imported from Armenia and the detection of quarantine objects in the plants.

“In the last few days, the Russian side has again raised questions regarding the flowers being exported, but we asked them to wait until September 1, stating that we ourselves would be very strict. After that, let no exporter complain that they applied to the inspectorate and were not granted a plant quarantine certificate,” Nikoyan stated.

He informed that an online inspection was conducted with the Russian side, which allowed them to quickly check the greenhouses and gradually permit the export of flowers.

It is noteworthy that the Russian side had raised three main issues regarding flower exports: suspicions that flowers exported to Russia were imported from third countries to Armenia, the use of one-day companies to evade taxes during exports, and the presence of harmful organisms.