According to an official press release of Russia’s Federal Customs Service, inspectors of Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) and the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) together with customs workers collected more than 1,000 tonnes of contraband.
From September 2014 to September of this year, 404,8 tonnes of contraband food were destroyed in Russia, while inspectors had returned an additional 777 tonnes to Belarus and Kazakhstan.
Two hundred thirty six vendors received notices for cases initiated against them for administrative violations. The total amount of fines for these infractions is 4.1 million rubles.