as of June 15, 2020 using the “mercury” Rosselkhoznadzor detected more than 1.2 thousand companies-phantoms. Only in the last five months discovered 670 facts illogical movements of goods – for example, when the goods are “moved” from one city to another for a few minutes. This may indicate the illegal introduction of potentially unsafe and ineffective products, and is the reason for the test companies.
Total in Russia since the beginning of the year until mid-June due to the “mercury” were identified 17,1 thousand cases of non-compliance. We are talking about the distortion of the products ‘ shelf life, substitution of information about the raw materials, the lack of information about the origin of the goods, the substitution of the name of the manufacturer, etc.
of Registration veterinary certificates for products of animal origin in electronic form became mandatory on 1 July 2018. First it was introduced for meat, fish, egg products, honey, raw milk and some other products. A year later, it added the finished livestock products, including cheese, butter and condensed milk. And on November 1 in the system joined drinking milk, milk products and ice cream.
the efficiency of the system is obvious: businesses have the right to issue the documents and not to pay govitrikar for veterinary accompanying documents and related sometimes imposed services on the market can not produce illegal products the movement of controlled goods can be traced, enumerated the Deputy head of Executive Committee of National meat Association Maxim Sinelnikov. However, according to him, as any information system, “mercury” virtually eliminates the right to be wrong. As a result, any manufacturer can be a “forger”. For example, in sausage of pork and beef can be found traces of the DNA of poultry meat. Most often this is the minimum “technically unavoidable” impurity of 0.1-0.9%. However, because this ingredient is not declared in the composition, this sausage can be formally recognized as a counterfeit. Also the technical regulations requires manufacturers of meat products to indicate the average value of protein and fat. But to get to these values is not always possible, says Sinelnikov.
In Soyuzmoloko, in turn, believe that is largely due to the “mercury” on the market of dairy production has managed to significantly reduce the share of counterfeit. Those producers who used to be able to hide information about the content of vegetable fats to their dairy products, are now forced either to disclose this information in the system, or you can use vegetable fats instead of relying raw milk. As a result, the quality of dairy products improved. So, for the last year production of cheese products (with substitutes molochnovabout fat) decreased by 4%, while the production of these cheeses has increased by 12%.
