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Monitoring activities for banned and harmful substances revealed E.coli in chilled salmon produced at Plant No-950 (Fiskekroken AS)...
On the 1st of May, international certification was awarded for the Icelandic Golden Redfish (Sebastes marinus / Sebastes norvegicus) fishery, attesting to the fact that the Icelandic Golden Redfish fishery complies with the principles for responsible fisheries management...
Laboratory tests of products exported from Armenian plant OOO “Unifish Export” into Russia demonstrated crayfish bacterial contamination that is a non-compliance with the veterinary and sanitary requirements of the Customs Union and Russia...
Laboratory test results of the products exported from China into Russia demonstrated bacterial contamination of squid rings manufactured by plant No. 3700/02883 (Longkou Runsheng Foodstaffs Co., Ltd) that is a non-compliance with veterinary and sanitary requirements of the Customs Union and Russia. In view of the fact that the non-compliance was detected for the first time the Rosselkhoznadzor imposes enhanced laboratory monitoring of the products exported from this plant. In case of further such non-compliances the Rosselkhoznadzor will have to impose temporary restrictions on importation of the products from this plant into Russia...
Monitoring activities for banned and harmful substances revealed mesophilic aerobic and facultative anaerobic microorganisms in frozen pork produced at Plant no. 484 (Alimets Asta Inc); E.coli in frozen hake produced at Plant No. 1908 (scanner enterprises)...
The Russian delegation to the Second Session of Russia Morocco Joint Fishery Commission in Agadir was headed by Head of the Federal Agency for Fishery Ilya Shestakov. The Moroccan delegation was headed by Moroccan Minister of Agriculture and Sea Fishery Aziz Akhannouch...
The Russian delegation was headed by Assistant of the Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Alexey Alekseenko; the Norwegian delegation was headed by Director of Central Office of Norwegian National Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet) Bjorn Rothe Knutdtsen...
A delegation from the Rosselkhoznadzor is going to visit Agadir (Kingdom of Morocco) on 6-9 of April of 2014...
The meeting is to be held in Moscow tomorrow, April 2...
The Russian Fish Union addressed to the Rosselkhoznadzor with the letter which among other things reads as follows: “To date, considering the current situation concerning safety of fish products imported to Russia and Customs Union which resulted in large-scale restrictions on fish raw material supplies from Norway, it is very difficult for fish business operators who can not be confident in stable and continuous supplies of fish products to develop and plan their business activities...
The talks will take place on March 18 and will be devoted to the consideration of vital issues related to export of Moroccan fish and sea products to Russia...
The talks were held via video conference and were devoted to issues related to safe export of fish, fish and seafood products from Canada to Russia. The parties expressed readiness to prepare and initial veterinary certificate for fish coming to Canadian cold storages for temporary storage in the shortest possible time...
According to the Regulation on the uniform procedure for carrying out joint inspections of plants and sampling of goods (food products) subject to veterinary control (survey) approved by the Decision of the Customs Union Commission of 18 October 2011 No. 834 the Rosselkhoznadzor forwarded to Veterinary Service of Taiwan (China) the Final Report on the mission of Rosselkhoznadzor specialists held from 23 June to 6 July 2013 at Taiwanese (Chinese) plants producing fish products and seafood of deep sea fishing and aquaculture and seeking to export their products into the territory of the Customs Union state members. The aforementioned Report was drawn up with due account for comments of the Taiwanese Veterinary Service to the preliminary report, according to Russia’s vet authority...
The Russian salmon fishery at Sakhalin is doing well.
Russian pollock fleets have sharply increased production of sea-frozen fillet blocks.
During a recent meeting at ESE, Brussels, with Russian and Norwegian operators of Russian fresh salmon and trout market Yevgeny Nepoklonov, Deputy Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor, replaced threat of blanket ban with proposed 100% testing of all fresh fish shipments from Norway as a temporatry forced measure due to deficiencies of Norwegian food safety system
The Russian vet authority Rosselkhoznadzor has issued warnings due to contamination of imported shipments of various food products, including seafood but not limited to seafood
The negotiations were held at the initiative of the New Zealand party. The Rosselkhoznadzor accepted the proposal of the New Zealand National Veterinary Service to hold negotiations on harmonization of veterinary certificates for export of New Zealand products subject to state veterinary surveillance to the common market of the Customs Union member countries
The value of seafood exports from Primorye Province (capital Vladivostok) has increased by 3.6% on the same period last year to reach $500.5 million since the start of 2012