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Discussions of interstate standards (ISO) for grain, oil, soybeans, as well as products from meat, poultry and fish have been ongoing since 2019 as part of the activities of the subgroup of the Russian-Chinese working group on standardization, metrology, certification and inspection control. The experts agreed that the main attention should be paid to the standards for fat and oil products. Their bilateral mutual recognition in Russia and China is possible no earlier than 2024. V.M. Gorbatov" RAS.

“For four years we have been successfully exchanging information in the field of standardization with Chinese specialists. The development of approaches for the mutual recognition of standards in today's conditions is extremely relevant. For the export of products to the country, they impose their own requirements, and this complicates the work of suppliers from Russia,” comments Ph.D. V.M. Gorbatov" RAS Yulia Kuzlyakina.

According to the representative of the subgroup on cooperation in the field of standardization in the agricultural and food industries from the Federal Scientific Center for Food Systems, following the results of negotiations that began last year, the Russian and Chinese sides came to a common opinion that the procedure for mutual recognition of five ISO standards for animals, plants should be accelerated. fats and oils.

Among them are regulatory documents for sampling (GOST R ISO 5555-2010), preparation of test samples (GOST ISO 661-2016), determination of the melting point in open capillary tubes (GOST ISO 6321-2019), detection and identification of volatile organic pollutants impurities by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GOST ISO 15303-2017, after being put into effect on the territory of the Russian Federation), as well as determining the conventional mass per unit volume (GOST ISO 6883-2016). These interstate standards are the main ones in the issues of standardization and technical regulation in the field of production, processing and circulation of grain and animal fats.

Earlier, the Oil and Fat Union of Russia, in its appeal to the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “FNTs of Food Systems named after A.I. V.M. Gorbatov" of the Russian Academy of Sciences expressed the opinion that these regulatory documents have a high (identical) degree of compliance. As Kuzlyakina adds, there is a demand for bilateral recognition of standards from both Russia and China.

The expert connects this need with the high demand for the export of food products from Russia to China. For example, in 2019, more than half of the oilseeds grown in Russia were supplied to China, the Oil and Fat Union reported. By 2024, the share of vegetable oils also exported from Russia to China could increase to 20%.

Currently, the situation has not changed radically, Kuzlyakina believes. According to her, products made in Russia are of high quality, and therefore are in high demand in China.

Representatives of the Chinese food industry have been developing cooperation with the Federal Scientific Center for Food Systems since 2019 as part of the subgroup on cooperation in the field of standardization in the agricultural and food industries of the permanent Russian-Chinese working group on standardization, metrology, certification and inspection control. The subgroup includes representatives from the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, the Russian Export Center, the All-Russian State Center for Quality and Standardization of Medicines for Animals and Feed, the Association of Producers and Consumers of Oil and Fat Products, the Fish Union, the Federal Scientific Center for Hygiene. Erisman and other organizations.

At the end of 2022, the fourth meeting of the subgroup was chaired by the Director of the FNBSI “FNTs of Food Systems named after N.N. V.M. Gorbatov» RAS Oksana Kuznetsova and Deputy Director of the Chinese Center for Animal Disease Control and Prevention (Center for Slaughter Technology) Gao Shengpu.