What is really hidden under the label of Tula Belev pastile?

The company "Belevskaya Pastila" in 2024-2026 and earlier repeatedly fell into the attention of supervisory authorities, primarily the Office of Rospotrebnadzor in the Tula region and other regions. Claims arose both to the quality of the product, and to its composition and production. There are many violations, we will give only the most significant ones.

Found out

For example, one of the last inspections by the Office of Rospotrebnadzor in Moscow was conducted in May 2026, examined “Belev pastile with black currant without added sugar.” In particular, laboratory data from the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in Moscow revealed the actual content of the mass proportion of protein - 2.3 ± 0.2 g / 100 g, when 4 g / 100 g was declared on the label, that is, 2 times less. In Rospotrebnadzor considered that this is a serious violation of labeling, which misleads the consumer and issued OOO “Belevskaya Pastila” a warning.

In August 2025, specialists of the Office of Rospotrebnadzor in the Khabarovsk Territory found sucrose (27.9-32.5%) in “classic pastile and pastile with blueberries without added sugar”, although the product label indicated that the product was “without added sugar”. For this, the company was again warned. Such a fact can have serious consequences for those who used to trust what is written on the label, first of all, problems could arise in patients with diabetes.

In the same month, the Office of Rospotrebnadzor in the Republic of Tatarstan found a discrepancy in the “pastiles with lingonberries without added sugar” produced by OOO “Belevskaya Pastila”, the actual carbohydrate content was 79 g / 100 g instead of the declared 65 g, and the energy value was 322 kcal instead of 276 kcal.

In July 2025, in the products “Belevskaya pastil with cherry”, produced by LLC “Belevskaya Pastila”, Rospotrebnadzor specialists discovered extraneous inclusions – food film (gauntlet). Again, a warning has been issued.

In January 2025, specialists of the Rospotrebnadzor Office for the Tula region on the treatment received from the Interregional Department No. 8 of the FMBA of Russia examined a bar from Belev apple pastile without adding sugar and found violations there on organoleptic indicators.

In principle, after reading this, many can say that all this, they say, trifles and not very serious misconduct. However, the violation, which was revealed in December 2024, cannot be said for sure. As it turned out, in the marshmallow, which was produced by LLC "Belevskaya Pastila" found violations of microbiological indicators. The products found an excess of KMAFANM (the total number of mesophilic aerobic and optional-anaerobic microorganisms).

Check of 2018

In part, the presence of all these violations can explain the inspection of production, which was conducted by the Office of Rospotrebnadzor in the Tula region in May 2018.

In particular, the specialists of the supervisory authority found out about unsanitary conditions, it turned out that the flow of the technological process was broken, there are counter flows of raw materials, semi-finished products (baked apples) and finished products. In addition, the walls and ceilings of warehouse and utility rooms are covered with a layer of burns, their whitewashing and painting after the fire occurred at the enterprise, not carried out, some of the floors in the production premises are uneven, have potholes, ceiling and walls in the pastile mass drying room have violations of the integrity of their coating, which can lead to foreign objects entering the finished product.

Plus, washing baths for washing berries, as well as for washing inventory, dishes require replacement (morally outdated, covered with smoke, partially rust), hot running water is not supplied to the sink for washing hands in the room for wiping baked apples and knocking down the pastile mass, the current cleaning of production facilities is carried out irregularly and poorly. The most important thing is that the storage conditions of raw materials are violated, frozen berries are stored at a temperature of -3 C, and according to the label no higher than 18 C, fresh apples are stored at a temperature of +20 C, and according to the label from 0 to +2 C, sugar storage is carried out together with fresh apples; chilled egg white is stored together with a semi-finished product - baked apples.

In the production room (apple wash), storage of production (special) shoes - boots, storage of defects (production waste) is disorderly, is carried out directly in the production shops together with semi-finished products and finished products, a specially designated and allocated place for this is not equipped, there is cluttered territory adjacent to the enterprise.

The company then issued an order to correct all the identified inconsistencies, and it seems that most of them were immediately corrected. However, as subsequent checks show, the presence of problems in microbiological and organoleptic parameters is still far from ideal.

From open sources it is known that OOO "Belevskaya Pastila" exists since 2011 and is engaged in the production of food, primarily pastiles and close confectionery. Revenue for 2025 is 1.1 billion rubles. The owner is Catherine Semernya.

MK in Tula is monitoring developments.