Five Ukrainian companies fined for oil counterfeiting

In the products of some manufacturers, the content of vegetable and non-dairy fats reached 90-100%.

The Antitrust Committee of Ukraine identified five manufacturers who made mixtures with unknown ingredients and called the product “butter”. They were fined more than 30 million hryvnia. This was announced on Tuesday, November 10, by the department’s press service.

The AMCU confirmed that many dairy producers were actually misleading consumers and offering them counterfeits in beautiful packaging.

It should be noted that, according to the standard, butter must contain exclusively milk fat. Any other impurity will immediately deprive the product of the name “butter”.

At the same time, the content of vegetable and non-dairy fats in the products of some companies reached 90-100%. And that “butter” was supplied, in addition to shops and markets, to schools, kindergartens and hospitals.

In this sense, dairy producers such as:

• Limited Bogodukhovsky Dairy Plant (Kharkov region) – 20.6 million hryvnia;

• Limited Malorogansky Dairy Plant (Kharkov region) – 4.4 million hryvnia;

• Limited Gaisinsky dairy plant (Vinnytsia Region) – 3.6 million hryvnia;

• Limited Simol (Kiev region) – 1 million hryvnia;

• Limited Inter-Mol (City of Dnipro) – 968 thousand UAH.

“Ukrainian consumers have the right to make an informed choice and if they want to buy butter, they will actually receive real high-quality dairy products,” concluded AMCU.

Recall that in February this year in Melitopol, activists smeared the head of the local education department Igor Eliseev with margarine, which, according to them, is given to children in kindergartens under the guise of butter. The official denied his involvement in supplying low-quality products.

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