Introduction of new sanitary policies and code regulating production and sale of meat products in Russia requires revision of respective Belarusian ones

During the board meeting of Belarusian Ministry of Agriculture and Food Yakov Pustoshilo, Head of the Central Administration of Foreign-Economic Activity, reported that introduction of new sanitary policies and code regulating production and sale of meat products in Russia requires revision of respective Belarusian ones.

During the board meeting of Belarusian Ministry of Agriculture and Food Yakov Pustoshilo, Head of the Central Administration of Foreign-Economic Activity, reported that introduction of new sanitary policies and code regulating production and sale of meat products in Russia requires revision of respective Belarusian ones.

Under his words, Russian Consumer Inspectorate has signed new sanitary-and-epidemiologic policies regulating production and sale of meat products. In the nearest future these policies will be approved by Russian government. “Under these regulations, only chilled and not frozen meat of poultry and butchers can be used to prepare foodstuffs,” reports BelTA. “Introduction of this norm is necessitated by the fact that, according to scientific data, the use of frozen meat has a negative impact upon human organism,” explained Y.Pustoshilo. Thus, the introduction of new sanitary policies and code requires revision of transport designed to haul frozen at -18 degrees meet as well as revision of sausage goods production technologies and creation of new freezer rooms, stressed the expert.

Besides that, the failure to comply with the requirements of Russian Agriculture Inspectorate concerning residual content of antibiotics, especially those from tetracycline group, can lead to prohibition of meat export onto Russian territory (such decision has been taken for a time with respect to several dozens of European enterprises). That is why Belarusian manufacturers need to take closer control of the quality of the cattle and poultry processed as well as of the produce manufactured, stressed Y.Pustoshilo. Moreover, in sixths months new regulations pertinent to milk and milk produce will come into effect in Russia. In accordance with these regulations the notion “milk” can be applied only to whole milk while the product from reduced milk will be called a dairy product. It is good news for Belarusian manufacturers as they produce dairy produce only from natural milk which means they have a good chance to increase export of such produce to Russia. Yakov Pustoshilo also noted that Belarusian enterprises should quicker react to changing market conditions especially in Russia as Russian market makes up 93% of Belarusian foodstuff export.