Street Trade Causes Infectious Diseases
People, Daily news | ankakh | June 16, 2010 16:24
This year several amendments have been made to the RA Law on ‘Trade and Services’. According to these amendments, the amount of penalty, imposed for street trade, makes 20,000. Nonetheless, the number of street vendors has not decreased yet. In summer the issue becomes vitally important: the number of food poisoning and intestinal infection cases increases.
Margarita Babayan, head of the Nutrition and Food Safety Department of the State Hygienic and Anti-Epidemic Inspectorate of RA Healthcare Ministry, said a number of preventive works have been carried out; however ‘no any essential changes have been registered in the direction of reducing the street trade’. ‘We have already sent the list of the addresses and goods of street trade to Yerevan Municipality. According to RA Prime Minister’s decision, we have not the right to impose any embargo on traders,’ Margarita Babayan said.
Yerevan Municipality is charged with the control over food trade. Vazgen Ghazaryan, deputy head of the Municipality’s trade and services division, assured that they carry out works consistently. ‘But as it is difficult to control the whole trade of the city with the 18-member staff, we focus on fast spoiling food,’ he said. President of ‘Consumers Rights Protection’ NGO Abgar Eghoyan says consumers are to blame for the ‘prosperity’ of street trade. According to him, the street trade will go on, as long as people buy food from street traders. The RA law, which imposes embargo on street traders, was adopted late 2004.
In answer to the question whether the street trade is prohibited or not, a woman, selling ice cream and natural drinks in the street, next to Garegin Njdeh square, said she does not make anybody buy food from her. The woman, who wished to remain incognito, said thereat she is not responsible for the consequences.
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