The Rosselkhoznadzor said about the falsification of a quarter of products in the country – the Russian Newspaper

In Russia, a quarter of all food is constantly counterfeited manufacturers. On 13 January at the Gaidar forum said the assistant head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Alexei Alekseenko.

“the Issue that is causing us enormous damage and can bring him even more, is the massive falsification of food products. According to our sampling, steadily falsified a quarter of all food products, he said. – Except for one thing: food egg falsifiziert only in China, we have not.”

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According to Alexey Alekseenko, a conscientious company in this regard find themselves in a disadvantageous economic position. “The government should put things in order here, to create conditions for the development of raw material producers and processing industry”, he concluded.

In June last year, the Rosselkhoznadzor told about the different ingredients that unscrupulous manufacturers add dairy products to save on raw materials. The validation showed that whole milk sometimes contains water, starch, chalk, soap, soda, lime, boric acid, etc. In the cream is often to mix the water, yogurt and low-fat cottage cheese, and butter – vegetable fat and margarine.

agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev then clarified that the share of counterfeit “miserable” and more than 90 percent of dairy products in Russia corresponds to the Standards. “Rosselkhoznadzor said that there are cases but about any ton or % it makes no sense to say,” – he stressed.