Russia: Rospotrebnadzor responded to the request of the Italian Ambassador for Parmesan

Published 2021년 3월 26일

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The Italian Ambassador to Russia, Pasquale Terracciano, has expressed hopes that Parmesan cheese may be removed from the list of products subject to Russia's food embargo, a sanction in response to Western sanctions following Russia's annexation of Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine. However, Rospotrebnadzor, the Russian federal service responsible for consumer protection, has clarified that the decision to add or remove items from the embargo list is not within their remit. The food embargo, initially imposed in 2014, has been extended multiple times and includes a variety of agricultural products from countries like the EU and the US.
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The responsibilities of Rospotrebnadzor "do not include making changes to the list of sanctioned goods," the department told RBC, commenting on the words of the Italian Ambassador to Russia that Rospotrebnadzor is already studying the issue of removing Parmesan from the blacklist. In an interview with Forbes, Pasquale Terracciano called it a mistake to include Parmesan in the list of products, the import of which to Russia was banned in response to the sanctions imposed by the EU countries. “All these years I insisted that we should make adjustments to the list of counter-sanctions. We are talking about Parmesan cheese, which, in my opinion, was mistakenly included in the package of counter sanctions against fresh products, since it is not fresh cheese, it is lactose free. Now Rospotrebnadzor is studying this issue, ”Terracciano said. At the same time, the Italian Ambassador noted that correcting the mistake would be "a good gesture towards the country, which has always remained ...
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