Russia: Avian flu at half price

Rosselkhoznadzor expects sales growth of poor-quality food

Nikolai Sadovnikov
"Rossiyskaya Gazeta" - The Central Issue number 4840 of February 3, 2009
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Economic crisis could lead to the Russian food market will grow to the proportion of low-quality products. With such an allegation was made yesterday to reporters chief veterinarian country, Deputy Director Россельхознадзора Nikolai Vlasov.

In his view, the drop in effective demand for the stalls will be more cheaper, and thus, according to Nikolai Vlasov, less safe products. He recommended that the Russians do not buy food in undesignated places. "Buying should be in reputable firms - told Mykola Vlasov. - If it is a big seller of the network, the likelihood that he will communicate with the" black "or" gray "schemes is minimal."

The biggest risk, according to the chief veterinarian, is a meat. And it is a bird, and pork, as pigs and broiler chickens are grown indoors, and they can receive food containing harmful and dangerous substances. A cow and sheep pasture alone that Vlasov, gives them the opportunity to choose safe food. (However, the producers of poultry meat or pork probably will not agree with that statement.)

In doing so, the chief veterinarian stated that Rosselkhoznadzor will do everything possible to prevent the ingress of low-quality products to the consumer. Here, however, need to be reminded that the quality of products in Russia is something else altogether office - Rospotrebnadzor. A Rosselkhoznadzor monitoring animal health and safety of imported food controls at border crossings. Nikolai Vlasov said that when the supply of imported chicken 3-5 percent of today does not pass veterinary control. And allow outbreaks of avian influenza in February, in the Krasnodar region. But, in his opinion, they will be "fast to stop." Vlasov stressed that the strategy to combat the spread of the virus worked by, factory farms have specific sanitary barriers, an algorithm for action in case of detection of the virus in poultry in private citizens Compound-established.

The problem is that in China and in Oceania the situation with avian influenza, as claimed by Nikolai Vlasov, is deplorable. And delete the mole infection into our territory for migratory birds, all one hundred percent impossible.