Rosselkhoznadzor admits easing imports of livestock products from the EU in a month's time

Rosselkhoznadzor does not rule out easing restrictions on the import of livestock products from the European Union (EU), which were imposed amid the spread of foot-and-mouth disease in Germany. This was stated by the head of the agency, Sergei Dankvert, on January 22.

"We are now everything that can carry foot-and-mouth disease, we have suspended everything for now. It will be tough for about a month, then we will see whether there will be a spread or not. There may be further softening, or there may not be," TASS quoted Dankvert as saying.

According to him, the easing of the ban will be effective if the enterprises, which were subject to the ban, pass the Russian inspection.

Rosselkhoznadzor imposed a ban from January 20 on imports of livestock products from the entire territory of the European Union (EU) due to the threat of spreading foot-and-mouth disease.

Earlier, on January 10, the first outbreak of FMD virus in Germany since 1988 was recorded on a farm in the federal state of Brandenburg. It was specified that the disease was registered in buffalo. Later, on January 14, Rosselkhoznadzor banned the import of breeding pigs from EU countries due to the FMD outbreak.