Ministry of Agriculture Order of packaged drinking milk may stop producing – TASS

MOSCOW, March 9. / TASS /. The unwillingness of the Russian dairy industry since March 2016 to issue veterinary documents accompanying the drinking packaged milk may lead to suspension of production and cessation of shipments of milk in stores across the country, he wrote in a Wednesday newspaper ” Kommersant “.

According to the publication, the National Union of milk producers (” Soyuzmoloko “, it includes Danone and PepsiCo) appealed to the Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, head of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov and Deputy Head of the Ministry of Economy Oleg Fomichev with a request to withdraw the order of the Ministry of Agriculture N648, a registered Ministry of Justice on 17 February 2016. As the letters to the officials (the copy is a “b”), the order requires manufacturers of drinking water packaged milk to issue veterinary accompanying documents (VSD) – paper certificates and certificate – for each batch of product produced from March 2016

<. p> To order the Ministry of Agriculture market participants came as a surprise, the newspaper said. “The order was designed without a public debate and adopted with clear violations of procedures … regulatory impact assessment”, – stated in the letters Union

The company PepsiCo (brands “Cottage”, “Merry Milkman”. ) believe that the order contradicts the law “on veterinary medicine”: for him drinking milk is included in the number of products (eg, condensed milk and butter), the IRR which is introduced only with January 1, 2018, and only in electronic form. He said communications director of PepsiCo Marina Zibareva

-, “In fact, the production and can be stopped deliveries of drinking milk in the shops, because none of the participants of the market can not meet the requirements of this document may be terminated in March of this year.”

The potential daily volume loss of raw milk and the blocked products “Soyuzmoloko” was estimated at 3 tons Issue milk VSD will require an increase of staff in the thousands of employees, re lines, business processes change -.. production control, warehousing and “partionnogo “accounting, says Director of public Relations for the Danone GC and government agencies in Russia (” Buttermilk “) Marina Balabanov. Because of this, she said, will increase the price of milk. “If you shift the costs vetsertifikatsiyu in the form in which it exists now, at the cost of the product, they will add to the selling price of about 10%”, – she says. The cost PepsiCo forecasts growth of 5,5-5,9%.

The press service of the Ministry of Economy said that the letter from “Soyuzmoloko” the Office has not yet been reported. “Letter seen, it worked out,” – said the press secretary Alia Dvorkovich Samigullina

Deputy Head of Rosselkhoznadzor (the Office participated in the development of the order) Nikolai Vlasov says that sanctions for non-compliance with the order of this month will not be.. At what time they start, the official did not elaborate. Statements that ordered the Ministry of Agriculture has been designed with violations, he denies, pointing out that otherwise it would not have registered the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Agriculture did not respond to the request “b”.

The network of Auchan, “ABC taste,” “Globe”, “Feed” and “Dixie” reported that have not yet received from suppliers any information about possible problems with supply – is now shipping are normally

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