Rosselkhoznadzor To Ban Fish From Icelandic, Armenian

ROSSELKHOZNADZOR TO BAN FISH FROM ICELANDIC, ARMENIAN

Interfax
Sept 17 2012
Russia

Rosselkhoznadzor will as of September 27 be banning product from
the Icelandic enterprise Vinnslustooin HF (NA668) and Armenia’s CJSC
Akvatekhavtomatika.

The service has announced that E. coli bacteria has been discovered in
consignments of frozen mackerel from Iceland and trout from Armenia,
thereby getting these companies back on the list of violators of
Russian food-safety requirements.

“In the case of the arrival of product shipped before September 27, the
decision on its entry will be made with mandatory laboratory control
for signs of danger in the revealed risk group,” Rosselkhoznadzor said.

Furthermore, Rosselkhoznadzor has beefed up control over products from
a number of meat and fish companies in Brazil, Denmark, Lithuania,
Ukraine, China, and Spain “in line with the primary discovery in their
products of E. coli group bacteria.” Control is also being tightened
over milk products from the Lithuanian dairy outfits NLT 61-01 P EB
(aB Pieno zvaigzdes, a branch of Mazeikiu pienine) and N LT 81-01 P
(UAB Rokiskio pienas) due to the finding of yeast in consignments of
tvorog, which is somewhat similar to cottage cheese.