ALMATY, Aug. 9 - The Kazakh Health Ministry has received an official request from the Russian consumer rights watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, asking it to ban imports of products produced by Ukraine's Roshen confectionary company.

"A letter from Rospotrebnadzor, saying that they have banned imports of Roshen products to Russia and asking that similar measures be taken in Kazakhstan, has been received," the Kazakh Health Ministry's Committee for State Sanitary-Epidemiological Surveillance Chief Expert Maral Rakhimzhanova told Interfax.