The Ministry of agriculture has proposed to destroy food that does not meet the technical regulations. On Thursday, August 17, the newspaper “Izvestia”.
The edition examined by the office prepared the bill. In particular, it is proposed to strengthen the administrative responsibility for violation of requirements of the Customs Union to food products. According to the authors of the document, the destruction of non-certified and withdrawn products will reduce the number of violations by manufacturers to the rules spelled out in the documents of the Eurasian economic Union (EEU).
Rosselkhoznadzor supported the idea of the Ministry, but has led to the argument that reason is not complying with the regulations of food products “is a threat to the health of citizens.”
Technical regulations of the Customs Union contain provisions on the labelling of products, materials for packaging, processes of production, storage, transportation.
Rosselkhoznadzor specialists on August 6, 2015, destroyed eight thousand tons of products are illegally imported from countries against which Russia imposed food embargo. August 6, 2016, the ban was extended until 31 December 2017. In September, the government included in the list targeted by the effect of predamage salt.