Russia imports a wide range of feed additives worth some Rub60 billion ($900 million) annually.
($ 900 million) annually. This figure is projected to grow as the country is set to further boost livestock production in order to nearly double the value of agricultural exports, which are ex- pected to be worth $ 45 billion per year by 2025.
Lysine is in the spotlight Russian feed additives importers have raised strong concerns about a weird situation surrounding the import of lysine in recent months. “Russia only produces lysine sulfate, but im- ports all the lysine hydrochloride it needs. I would estimate the import of lysine hydrochloride at 50,000 to 55,000 tonnes per year,” Mikhnyuk said. In February 2020, Rosselkhoznadzor registered lysine hydrochloride from the Chinese manufactur- er Eppen, two plants of which were prohibited to supply their products to Russia in December 2017. “The permission to im- port lysine was obtained by a [Russian] company that has never previously been seen working on the Russian feed mar- ket. This unknown company has registered the Chinese lysine under its own brand, which means it holds the exclusive right to import lysine from this Chinese manufacturer,” added an- other source on the Russian market who wished not to be named. In this case the registration procedure took place in only two months – an extraordinary short period of time to get a green light to sell a feed additive on the Russian market, according to Mikhnyuk. As a rule, the procedure of registra- tion of a new feed additive takes about 6-8 months. The main
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problem, however, is that before granting that import per- mission, Rosselkhoznadzor virtually wiped out all the com- petitors on the market. “Rosselkhoznadzor has limited the im- port of lysine hydrochloride into Russia in two stages. In December 2017, the veterinary regulator banned the import of lysine from all Chinese manufacturers. Those restrictions have pushed up the price of lysine in Russia,” according to Mikhnyuk. Further, at the end of 2019 and in January 2020, Rosselkhoznadzor also banned almost all of the main remain- ing non-Chinese lysine producers, with the exception of Ajinomoto (France), a company supplying expensive lysine and focused mainly on Europe and the Brazilian branch of CJ (South Korea), whose core market is Latin America. So it has rather small volumes to deliver to Russia. Mikhnyuk thinks this issue causes major concerns: “We are trying to make con- tact with that Chinese company to get an idea as to whether it is ready to sell its lysine to other feed additives importers in Russia or whether it intends to retain exclusivity on the mar- ket. We also aware that the same company has recently filed an application to the EFSA to register its lysine feed in the Eu- ropean Union. We would like to appeal to our colleagues in Europe to know whether they have any insight into the safety of products that company is offering,” Mikhnyuk added. “We have heard that EFSA raised certain issues regarding the safe- ty of that lysine and, if that is the case, we wonder why the regulator fast tracked the registration.”
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