A list containing 11 forbidden ingredients that must not be served to athletes or spectators at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi "has been sent to the Games' organizing committee in an attempt to prevent outbreaks of food poisoning," according to the MOSCOW TIMES. The document, sent by the Federal Service on Customer Rights, said "caterers must not serve homemade beer, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, tvorog made from unpasteurized milk, either separately or in blini, dried fish or mushrooms."
Macaroni po-flotsky, a pasta dish similar to spaghetti bolognese, "has also been outlawed."
The federal agency, headed by Gennady Onischenko, said that the list of banned products "was taken directly from regulations on food safety" adopted in '01, which also said that "companies specializing in food services must implement SanPiN (Sanitary Norms and Rules)." Violation of its requirements "may be punished by fines of hundreds of thousands of rubles." Food safety at Sochi "will be controlled by the organizing committee, Sochi 2014, although it has so far declined to say exactly how this will be done, other than to state that the official food safety codex will be followed" (MOSCOW TIMES, 5/6).
