The National Food Agency is making public the final results of the monitoring carried out in nursery-kindergartens. The research results of all 694 samples of various types of animal and non-animal origin food taken for laboratory testing are now known.

All of them comply with the established food safety standards.

In connection with the cases of gastroenteritis caused by norovirus among children in Tbilisi nursery-kindergartens, the National Food Agency immediately launched a complex investigation.

The Agency’s inspection teams checked the catering blocks of the nursery-kindergartens, as well as meat and dairy production facilities. Within the framework of the monitoring, various types of food taken from the kindergartens were laboratory tested, including:

--- Fruits and vegetables;
--- Dairy products (cheese, milk powder, ultra-pasteurized drinking milk, butter, sour cream);
--- Meat and meat products (beef and chicken);
--- Cereals, ready-made dishes, and drinking water.

The research was carried out on indicators such as:

--- Heavy metals;
--- Nitrates;
--- Microbiological parameters and pathogens (aerobic microorganisms, coliforms, Salmonella, Shigella, coagulase-positive Staphylococci).