Veterinary control: services, goods subject to inspection, regulations

Those or other control methods are primarily carried out to make sure the safety of a particular object. This can be said about veterinary control. In the article we will analyze what is meant by it, which services are entitled to conduct it. We will also introduce the types of goods subject to veterinary supervision and control. As well as relevant laws and regulations.

The essence of the procedure

Veterinary control of goods imported into the customs territory of the Russian Federation is carried out at access points equipped with special means for this. All controlled products must meet the requirements of regulatory acts:

• Unified veterinary requirements.
• Regulation on the unified procedure for the implementation of veterinary control throughout the Customs Union.

Lots of controlled goods are imported to the borders of the Customs Union and the Russian Federation only if the following documents are available:

• A permit that is issued and signed by authorized employees of the state body of the country into whose territory the products are delivered.
• Veterinary certificate issued by a competent state authority.

On the territory of the Customs Union, the Unified form of veterinary certificate is the universal variation of resolution.

Forms of control

In the spaces of the Customs Union there are three categories of veterinary customs control:

• Documentary. This is a check of documentation confirming the safety of imported products, permits for import, transit, export of controlled products, compliance of the contents of these securities with Unified Requirements.
• Physical. This is the inspection of products and inspection of animals, checking the conformity of the state of controlled products, animals with the data specified in the accompanying documentation. It is also a determination of the carrier's compliance with existing veterinary and sanitary requirements, control of the modes and conditions of transportation, control of compliance of marking and packaging with state requirements.
• Laboratory. As part of such control, relevant studies are conducted in laboratories accredited for these purposes. This is necessary to detect organoleptic changes, exclude the presence of contagious diseases.

Regulatory Documentation

What goods, animals are subject to veterinary control? The full list is indicated in Appendix No. 1 to the Decision of the Commission of the Customs Union No. 317 (2010). It regulates the use of sanitary and veterinary control forms within the Customs Union.

The following important applications have been issued to this act:

• The procedure for exercising such control.
• Procedures for conducting joint verification activities of facilities, as well as sampling of goods, which are directly subject to veterinary control.
• Uniform requirements for products subject to veterinary control.
• Unified forms of veterinary certificates accepted on vehicle spaces.

Live animals

We turn to the Unified list of goods subject to veterinary control. The following live animals must be drawn through it:

• Horses, hinnies, mules, donkeys.
• Cattle.
• Goats and sheep.
• Pigs.
• Domestic bird. In particular, domestic hens, guinea fowls, geese, turkeys and ducks.
• Other groups of animals (including camels).
• Animals in the composition of traveling menageries, traveling circuses.

Meat

Veterinary control in the Russian Federation is also carried out in relation to meat:

• Fresh and chilled - cattle.
• Frozen - cattle.
• Frozen, chilled or fresh pork.
• Fresh, frozen or chilled lamb or goat.
• Fresh, frozen or chilled meat from animals such as horses, donkeys, hinnies or mules.
• Fresh, frozen or chilled offal of cattle, goats, horses and other animals indicated above.
• Frozen, fresh or chilled offal of poultry.
• Fresh, chilled or frozen meat, offal of other categories of animals.
• Fat - poultry, pork, it is separated from the meat, and not melted and not obtained in any other way. It can be fresh, salted, frozen, chilled, placed in brine, smoked or dried.
• That meat or meat offal, which are supplied salted, smoked, dried, placed in brines.

Fish and seafood

Veterinary control must pass live animals, products from this list:

• All species of live fish.
• Fresh or chilled fish.
• Frozen fish.
• Fish fillets, other products from such meat (including minced meat). They can be fresh, frozen or chilled.
• Salted, dried fish.
• Fish placed in brines.
• Cold and hot smoked fish.
• Fishmeal (both fine and coarse), fishmeal pellets intended for human consumption.
• Crustacean animals - in shell and without shell. The following products stand out in the category: salted, chilled, in brine, frozen, boiled in boiling water and steamed, dried, smoked. Flour made from these animals, different types of grinding, granules of such flour.
• Shellfish - in the sink and without it. Live, chilled, fresh, frozen, dried, salted, cooked in brine.
• Other invertebrate aquatic animals that are distinct from mollusks and crustaceans. Live, frozen, fresh, salted, cooked in brine, dried.

Dairy

Veterinary supervision (control) is also applied here. Applies to Products:

• Milk, cream.
• Buttermilk.
• Kefir.
• Yogurt.
• Fermented, condensed, fermented, curdled milk products.
• Dairy products with added sugar, sweeteners, fruit, nut and other flavoring fillings.
• Butter.
• Milk pasta.
• Fats otherwise made from milk.
• Cottage cheese.
• Cheeses

Eggs

The following goes through production veterinary control:

• Inshell eggs - fresh, boiled, canned.
• Eggs without shells, yolks - dried, fresh, cooked, etc.

Animal products

Veterinary control is mandatory in relation to the following:

• Bee Honey.
• Boar, pork bristles.
• Badger or other hair for making brushes.
• Skins of birds, their feathers, fluff.
• Claws and horn rods.
• Corals, shells, shells, skeletal plates of mollusks, crustaceans, cuttlefish, echinoderms.
• Amber, beaver stream, musk, bobbin, bile or other animal glands used to produce various medical products.
• Natural sponges.
• Horsehair.
• Hunting trophies, stuffed animals, including those processed by taxidermists.

Plants

Here we are talking about veterinary and phytosanitary control. It relates to the following:

• Barley.
• Wheat.
• Oats
• Rye.
• Soya beans.
• Corn.
• Flour used to feed pets.
• Plants or their individual elements used for veterinary, insecticidal or similar purposes.
• Perga or pollen.
• Rutabaga, hay, beets, lupins, forage cabbage, alfalfa, clover and other forage crops.
• Propolis.
• Cereal straw and chaff.

Fats

The following is subject to veterinary, phytosanitary control:

• Pork fat.
• Cattle fat.
• Fat poultry.
• All kinds of animal oil.
• Worlds, oil or other fatty fractions from fish, marine mammals.
• Vegetable oils and fats.
• Margarine.
• Beeswax and other insects.

Plant and animal products

State veterinary control in this category must pass the following:

• Sausages and similar meat products.
• Canned, prepared meat products.
• Juices and extracts from meat of marine animals, fish, crustaceans.
• Caviar, caviar substitutes.
• Ready and canned fish, shellfish, crustaceans.
• Pasta stuffed with fish meat, crustaceans, mollusks and other aquatic invertebrates.
• Products from cereals, grains, cereal flakes containing toppings, extracts from meat, fish, marine invertebrates and so on.
• Products that are processed fruits, vegetables, nuts, other plant components, containing meat, animal fats, fish, seafood and so on.
• Inactive yeast.
• Soups and broths, preparations for their preparation, containing animals and combined (vegetable and animal) components.
• Ice cream, except for food, fruit, berry ice.
• Processed cheeses containing meat, fish components, seafood inclusions.

Waste and other products

The following products are subject to veterinary control:

• Flour of animal and vegetable origin, not intended for human consumption.
• Bran and other waste from grinding, sieving and other methods of processing legumes or grain crops.
• Wastes from the production of sugar, starch, bard, brewing, distilling.
• Oilcake, solid waste that is obtained in the production of soybean oil, vegetable oils and fats.
• Plant waste and residues, plant products that are used to feed pets.
• Chemical, organic compounds directly used in veterinary medicine.
• Vegetable, animals and combined fertilizers.
• Casein and casein derivatives.
• Albumin, whey protein concentrates.
• Gelatin, gelatin derivatives, fish glue, glues of other animal origin.
• Peptones, protein substances and their derivatives.
• Enzymes and various enzyme preparations.
• Rodenticides, insecticides, disinfectants.
• Culture media used for growing microorganisms used in veterinary medicine.
• Laboratory and diagnostic reagents.
• Skins of cattle, equine, processed and unprocessed.
• Skins of sheep, lambs.
• Other animal skins - gilt, dried, paired, canned, double and non-double, with and without hair.
• Products made from intestines, tendons, blisters, bungs.
• Fur and fur raw materials.
• Raw silk.
• Silkworm cocoons.
• Silk waste.
• Animal hair.
• Animal hair.
• Wool waste.
• Collections, as well as collectibles on paleontology, zoology and anatomy of animals.

Supervisory service

In Russia, the Rosselkhoznadzor is the state veterinary control service. This is the federal structure of the executive branch, which carries out all the functions of supervision and control in the following areas:

• Veterinary Medicine
• Circulation of medicines used for veterinary use.
• Quarantine and plant protection.
• Safe handling of agrochemicals and all kinds of pesticides.
• Providing soil fertility.
• Ensuring the safety and proper quality of grain, cereals, various animal feed, components used for their production, as well as similar products for the processing of grain.
• Land relations (in particular, agricultural land).
• Protection of civilians from diseases, infections common to animals and humans.
• State supervision in the field of seed production (in relation to seeds of agricultural structures).

Service structure

The main governing elements of the Rosselkhoznadzor are its own Central Office. In addition to it, the following is highlighted:

• Territorial departments of the department.
• Veterinary laboratories related to the Rosselkhoznadzor.
• Scientific research institutes of the department.
• Reference Centers.
• Border checkpoints of goods subject to veterinary control.
• Federal treasury organizations related to the Rosselkhoznadzor.
• Veterinary departments related to Russian entities.

Veterinary, phytosanitary control is necessary for the export, transit, import into the territory of the Russian Federation, vehicles of animals, certain products, raw materials, plants. It is carried out by a special service - the Rosselkhoznadzor. In her work, she relies on the documents identified in this article.