We are Ukrainians! We are characterized by heroical past, love to the land and hospitality. Our symbols are bread and fertile land. We were the “breadbasket of Europe”, our agricultural traditions were a kind of standard from times immemorial. Unfortunately it is a memory only for the last few decades. The country experienced a lot of shocks and lost a proud title of “breadbasket”, it is now associated with low living standard, unemployment etc. Even bread, which is our old symbol, has endured changes. We, Ukrainians, should be ashamed of growing grain of poor quality, of forgetting agricultural traditions. It is sad that we buy bread of poor quality at the shop, which is baked of low-quality wheat. We even do not imagine what is inside of it (GMO, chemical additives, etc.). We are able to live better! “We are able to eat better” – those are the aims of gastroenterology conference, which was held in Mykolayiv. Head of Gastroenterological Department of Mykolayiv Regional Hospital Volodymyr Luchnyy said: “On the 29th of April regional conference of gastroenterologists devoted to the impact of food on the work of the liver and the entire intestinal tract was held in Mykolayiv. There was investigated a problem of content of various chemical additives in food: stabilizers, emulsifiers, GMO etc. Thus it was reasonable for us to visit the transshipment terminal of “NIBULON” to find out, how examining of grain and flour for quality is conducted in modern European conditions, in order to get useful natural product. Colleagues from Dnipropetrovs’k Institute of Gastroenterology (Professor Yuriy Stepanov and assistant professor Igor Budzak) and Kyiv Military-Medical Academy (Professor Galina Os’odlo) joined Mykolayiv doctors. Modern laboratories impressed and interested us. We see that Ukrainians can eat natural and safe bread.” The guests had an excursion at the transshipment terminal: they got acquainted with a new laboratory and administration building, talked with experts of laboratories and found out all the details of laboratory analysis, familiarized themselves with modern laboratory equipment, were able to hold in their hands and compare a bread baked from flour of different quality; visited the berth and witnessed process of vessel loading. A pleasant part of the excursion was “NIBULON’s” lunch, which was cooked of natural and environmental products. Thus meeting was dynamic and useful. Finally the guests expressed their hope that with every new achievement of “NIBULON” in product quality inspection sphere, less Ukrainians will be complaining about their health.
