The President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev has signed a law cardinally changing the distribution of authority between the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and Rospotrebnadzor (Russian Federal Consumer Rights Protection and Human Health Control Service).
The head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onischenko has lost the rights to approve new sanitary standards and rules. It means that from now on the most important Russian sanitary inspector can’t make such important decisions in the trade sphere as, for example, prohibition of deep-frozen poultry meat sale or import of vegetables from Europe.
From now on, the officials of the Ministry of Health and Social Development will coordinate the elaboration and enaction of new standards. At present, Rospotrebnadzor has only got the opportunity to give recommendations to the Ministry. By the way, the officials of the Ministry of Health and Social Development have already declared that they were going to review all the standards, approved by Rospotrebnadzor.
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