The new GOST R 56389-2025 for ethyl alcohol from food raw materials comes into effect on April 15, 2026. The chief specialist of the testing laboratory of the Altai branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Federal Center for the Assessment of the Safety and Quality of Products of the Agro-Industrial Complex" (FGBI "TsOK APK") Dmitry Volkov commented on the main changes. Dmitry Volkov named one of the most significant innovations the inclusion of "Ultra" alcohol in the standard with an extremely stringent requirement for methanol content of less than 0.00003%. This indicator effectively excludes the possibility of using the previously employed method according to GOST 30536-2013 "Vodka and ethyl alcohol from food raw materials. Gas chromatographic express method for determining the content of toxic micro-impurities," since its sensitivity is no longer sufficient. "Therefore, the development of a new method based on vapor phase chromatography (Appendix A of GOST 56389) ...