Foodmate News: the Russian Federation proposed regulation official website Information: On August 19, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation issued with a mandatory identification tools dairy label draft rules for comments draft. The main contents of the draft opinion include:

Implementation of mandatory identification tool requirements for dairy product labels with different shelf life and different categories by time:

From January 20, 2021: non-condensed milk and cream products with a shelf life of more than 28 days.

From July 1, 2021: milk, condensed milk, cream, whey, butter, cheese and soft drinks containing milk fat with a shelf life of no more than 28 days.

From October 1, 2021: curd, cream, yogurt and other fermented milk, etc.

For farms engaged in the retail business of self-owned dairy products, it is recommended that the implementation date of label identification with mandatory identification tools be postponed to October 1, 2022.

The dairy product labeling experiment is currently underway and is scheduled to end at the end of December 2020. about 5,700 companies will participate in this experiment. This label will be applied to each sales unit package of dairy products in a matrix format.

The comment period for the draft is from August 18 to September 14, 2020.

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