Rosselkhoznadzor says one-fifth of animal products checked in 2016 were substandard
MOSCOW. June 14 (Interfax) - Over one-fifth of the animal products that Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) checked in 2016 did not meet the quality standards required by law.
Last year samples for laboratory testing of quality were taken from 24,158 product lots, Rosselkhoznadzor chief Sergei Dankvert told journalists. Testing found that the qualitative composition of 5,063 or 20.96% of the samples did not conform to that declared by the producer.
The violations were found in products from Kabardino-Balkaria and from the Ivanovo, Magadan, Novosibirsk, Astrakhan, Kursk, Samara, Novgorod, Bryansk and Moscow regions.
This year, 6,100 samples for verifying qualitative composition were taken, and violations were found in 1,001 of them (16.4%).
In addition, samples from 103,450 product lots were taken for safety testing and 8,105 (7.83%) did not meet safety requirements.
Those violations were found in products from Komi and Altai, from the Murmansk, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad and Sverdlovsk regions and from the Trans-Baikal and Stavropol territories.
This year samples for safety testing were taken from 28,940 product lots and violations were found in 1,857 (6.42%) of them, Dankvert said.
