Russia "turns back" another 17 tons of Belarusian meat

• 8.01.2015, 12:59

On January 7 at the station of veterinary, phytosanitary and related control "Krasnaya Gorka" ("Red Hill") the imported 17 tons of poultry meat production, produced at OAO «Agrokombinat "Skidelsky", Belarus, were forbidden in Russia.

The Federal Service for Veterinary and Psytosanitary Surveillance told charter97.org about it.

According to the documents required for exercising customs control measures, frozen products, second quality broiler chicken, were imported.

During inspection the officers of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Psytosanitary Surveillance found that some part of products was produced during the period of temporary restrictions on the supplies of a given enterprise.

The appearance of the products indicated a violation of poultry technology processing.

In the framework of monitoring the safety of products entering the Russian market, it was decided to hold a laboratory research in a referential center of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance.

Due to the absence of the State Veterinary Service of the Republic of Belarus in an electronic single rapid alert system "Vesta", the countries of the Customs Union will be notified of the results of research by means of facsimile line", the statement says.