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Russia to ban import of Estonian, Latvian fish products

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Officials from Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) met veterinary officials from the Baltic states last Friday and told them “imports of fish products from Latvia and Estonia to Russia will be halted shortly,” the agency said in a statement on its website.

Russia said it would send statements of alleged violations it discovered to Latvia and Estonia’s veterinarian services over the next week. Russia has already introduced sweeping bans of meat and produce from the European Union in retaliation against its imposition of sanctions on Moscow over its actions in Ukraine.

Rosselkhoznadzor spokesperson Yulia Trofimova clarified that tinned and preserved fish was not included in the list of products affected by the trade restrictions imposed by Russia on several Western markets until August 2015.

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Russia bans imports of fish and dairy products from Estonia

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On January 9, the Russian Federal Service for Agricultural Control (Rosselkhoznadzor) banned the shipments of dairy and fish products from eleven companies in Estonia.

Sergei Dankvert, the head of the service, said that the decision to restrict the shipments was made following the inspection of dairy and fish companies in Estonia.

The official reason for the move is the absence of required control over the production of raw milk at the companies. In particular, the current system of control does not embrace all necessary groups of antibiotics that are provided in the control rules of the Customs Union.

Meanwhile, milk products from Lithuania are expected to return to Russian stores. The Lithuanian products were absent from the Russian market for almost three months. The ban was introduced by Gennady Onishchenko, the previous head of the Federal Service for Consumer Rights Protection, who was not satisfied with the quality of the Lithuanian milk.

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