Speaking after a summit with an array of top EU officials in the Volga River city of Nizhny Novgorod, 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Moscow, Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev said the country will be ready to lift the ban after receiving the safety certificates from the EU.
Russian officials had said before the summit the ban will only be lifted once the EU determines what caused the outbreak and how the bacteria spread.
Despite the expressions of hope over the lifting of the ban, there’s still uncertainty as to when it will actually be done. Gennady Onishchenko, Russia’s top sanitary official who attended Friday’s summit, wouldn’t say when the ban could be lifted, signaling that it could take longer than just a few days. He also denied the fact that Rospotrebnadzor had forced retail chains to withdraw European berries from circulation. There was no official ban on berries import from the EU countries.
Source: www.freshplaza.com