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Today, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan hosted a regular meeting of the Committee to Combat Illicit Trafficking of Industrial Products in Tatarstan. This time it was about the results of the supervision over the circulation of counterfeit dairy products in the republic in the first 6 months of 2019. The meeting was chaired by Minister Albert Karimov.

In her report, Head of the Rospotrebnadzor Office in Tatarstan Marina Patyashina said: “In the course of supervisory measures in the first half of the year, no cases were revealed of dairy products falsification from Tatarstan producers, only violations of imported products from other regions were recorded”.

Deputy Head of Tatarstan Office of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Yevgeny Ivanov, informed the audience of the need to issue accompanying veterinary documents for products such as butter, cream, condensed milk, and other finished dairy products from July 1, 2019. This measure would significantly reduce opportunities for falsification of dairy products. From November 1, 2019, veterinary certificates will be issued for all dairy products.

Summing up the meeting, Minister Karimov proposed to unite the efforts of regulatory and law enforcement agencies in order to identify and counter the spread of counterfeit products in the consumer market of Tatarstan.

The Federal Service for Supervision over Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) is conducting a hotline on the quality and safety of meat and fish products and expiration dates.

For all questions of interest, please call 8 800 555-49-43.

The questions of the residents of Kazan and Tatarstan will be answered by experts from the Food Hygiene Supervision Department of the Rospotrebnadzor Office in Tatarstan.

The hotline will operate from September 11 to September 25, 2019 by phone: +7 (843) 273-34-85 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Based on information by Rospotrebnadzor Office in Tatarstan