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Russian pork producers may be allowed to supply the meat to China after the country's New Year celebrations, also known as the Spring Festival, end. As TASS reports, the press service of Rosselkhoznadzor spoke about this.

The Russian department emphasized that only those batches that were produced after the date of registration of the enterprise in the Chinese CIFER system will be allowed for export. Let us remind you that the presence of manufacturers in this database is a prerequisite, without which deliveries are impossible even if all other necessary requirements are met. This is done for the purpose of transparency, in order to understand which exporters are ready to supply their products and which, if there are violations, can be excluded from the list of trusted exporters. Rosselkhoznadzor also said that three Russian companies have already passed the initial certification according to the requirements of the Chinese side. During the inspection, no violations were identified on their part; the issue of their inclusion in the Chinese supervisory system is being decided. In addition, the department added that Russian organizations continue to submit applications for certification.

Let us recall that for China to approve the supply of Russian pork to Rosselkhoznadzor and the producers of this meat themselves, it took seven years of fruitful technical and diplomatic work. In particular, the service provided Chinese specialists with all comprehensive information about the products themselves and measures to ensure their quality and safety and gave them clarifications on other issues of interest. In particular, the Chinese authorized officials were presented with a system for controlling African swine fever (ASF) and other diseases of these animals. The safety of this meat specifically due to ASF is one of the priority issues for China, since it was precisely because of this disease that the country’s pig industry has suffered serious damage over the past few years. Let us remember that during this period several million pigs died. In turn, at each of the visits of Chinese specialists, the pig farmers themselves provided them with documents confirming the reliability of the products, and also proved the excellent epizootic condition of their own enterprises. Thanks to this, China was persuaded to support the principle of regionalization. Let us remember that it means the import of products from regions that are epizootically free from diseases inherent in the animals from which they are obtained. This was the first serious step, which made it possible to discuss further technical details of pork supplies to China. The last time a successful inspection by Chinese specialists, confirming the quality and safety of this meat from Russia, took place from December 4 to December 14 last year.