MINSK, 26 March (BelTA) – Next week Belarusian experts will inspect pork producers in Belgorod and Tver Oblasts of Russia, BelTA learned from Vasily Pivovar, Director of the Veterinary and Food Oversight Department of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry.
The Belarusian experts will get down to work on Monday, Vasily Pivovar informed. Russian experts will carry out similar inspections at the Belovezhskie Syry cheese-making company in Brest Oblast and Agrokombinat Snov in Minsk Oblast. The Russian experts are expected to submit their findings next week.
Vasily Pivovar noted that the main goal of such mutual inspections is to ensure product safety and to create the conditions for full resumption of pork shipments. He recalled that in autumn 2014 Belarus imposed temporary restrictions on the shipments of the pork that did not undergo high-temperature processing to Russia. The reason was that specialists of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of Russia (Rosselkhoznadzor) allegedly discovered the ASF virus gene in the products of some Belarusian enterprises. Belarus also imposed bans on pork imports from the Russian regions where the ASF outbreaks were recorded.
The Belarusian experts will get down to work on Monday, Vasily Pivovar informed. Russian experts will carry out similar inspections at the Belovezhskie Syry cheese-making company in Brest Oblast and Agrokombinat Snov in Minsk Oblast. The Russian experts are expected to submit their findings next week.
Vasily Pivovar noted that the main goal of such mutual inspections is to ensure product safety and to create the conditions for full resumption of pork shipments. He recalled that in autumn 2014 Belarus imposed temporary restrictions on the shipments of the pork that did not undergo high-temperature processing to Russia. The reason was that specialists of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of Russia (Rosselkhoznadzor) allegedly discovered the ASF virus gene in the products of some Belarusian enterprises. Belarus also imposed bans on pork imports from the Russian regions where the ASF outbreaks were recorded.
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