Dairy products from Lithuania banned

9 October 2014. The CPS has introduced a ban on the import of Lithuanian dairy products in Russia.

CPS found that many of the Lithuanian dairy products do not meet the standards of quality and safety standards of sanitary-chemical, organoleptic and microbiological parameters. The ministry said: "In the Republic of Lithuania has been weakened by the quality control and food safety, so it became necessary to introduce restrictive measures on their import to Russia."

Chief State Sanitary Doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko said: "Today in Lithuania dramatically weakened position on consumer protection, in the Lithuanian curd were detected coliform bacteria, yeast and mold, sour cream contains enough lactic acid organisms, and in it were found dibutyl phthalate and diethylphthalate. "

Not satisfied with the CPS and the quality of today's popular in the Russian dairy products "fell off".

It is expected that in the near future to import from Lithuania banned fish and meat.