Russia’s export certification ability for food of animal and plant origin has been greatly improved

News from the veterinary and Plant Health Supervision Bureau of the Russian Federation on August 6: since 2021, the central scientific and methodological veterinary laboratory under the Bureau has expanded the certification scope of more than 1600 indicators of animal and plant derived foods exported to Russia, and has been responsible for more than 500000 kinds of products exported in 2021, such as dairy products, meat products, aquatic products Honey and bee products and grain processing products were effectively analyzed

The official website said: one of the important activities of the laboratory is to help exporters meet the quality and safety requirements of importing countries for export products. Therefore, the scope of certification will be expanded every year.

In the process of expanding the scope of certification, the laboratory focuses on the detection methods of veterinary drug residues in animal derived foods. At present, the types of veterinary drugs that can be determined include tetracycline antibiotics, aminoglycoside antibiotics, polypeptide antibiotics, penicillin antibiotics, nitroimidazoles, lincomrades, etc. the scope of certification has been extended to the determination methods of xenobiotics in honey.

In addition, the central scientific and methodological Veterinary Laboratory of Russia used real-time PCR to qualitatively and semi quantitatively identify the species attribution of meat and plant components contained in feed, food and food raw materials from animals and plants, and included the RNA detection of sars-cov-2 virus into the certification scope of the agency, so as to strengthen the control of export products and their packaging, So that the products can be exported to overseas, especially China.

The laboratory plans to achieve the goal of expanding the certification scope of more than 1500 indicators by the end of 2021.

Source: Food partner network


Post time: Aug-12-2021