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Moldova sends wine samples to European labs for testing

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CHISINAU, April 13 (RIA Novosti) - Moldova has sent samples of its wine to European laboratories for quality testing in the wake of a Russian embargo on Moldovan wine imports, a source in the country's wine industry said Thursday.

The source in agricultural-industrial agency Vin-Moldova said the wine samples were sent to laboratories in Poland, Romania and Italy.

Russia suspended imports of Moldovan and Georgian wine March 27 following hygiene concerns raised by chief doctor Gennady Onishchenko, who said the wines failed to meet numerous health and safety regulations.

A Moldovan parliamentary delegation is currently visiting Moscow to discuss with Russian officials the resumption of the country's wine exports to Russia.

Georgy Kozub, head the Moldovan association of wine exporters, said earlier last week that the situation was approaching critical, as the wine industry was a major source of budget revenue.

Kozub said the Russian market was strategically important for Moldova, as it consumes 85% of the country's wine exports.

With bootlegging a lucrative underground industry in Russia, health officials conducted a series of raids on shops in Moscow last month in an effort to weed out poor-quality wines purporting to be prized labels from both Georgia and Moldova, whose relations with Russia have deteriorated over a number of issues in recent months.

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