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Russian feed additive industry struggles because of regulatory barriers
BY VLADISLAV VOROTNIKOV, CORRESPONDENT O
ver the past decade, nearly 10,000 applications have been submitted to the Russian veterinary watchdog Rosselhoznadzor to register imported feed additives for the Russian market, but only
3,000 have been approved, according to Sergey Mikhnyuk, CEO of the National Feed Union. Some liberalisation may be already underway as businesses work strenuously to get more feed additives registered. “We have some questions for Rosselhoznadzor regarding the current process of feed addi- tive registration. We really hope that within the recently launched regulatory constraints we will be able to adjust the requirements to reflect common sense and global best prac- tice,” Mikhnyuk said. “One of our main aims this year is to en- hance cooperation with the leading European feed organisa- tions, including FEFANA and FEFAC, to transfer the best practices of registration of feed additives to Russia. Now we have a system in which if a company even slightly changes the composition of a feed additive, it has to register it as a new additive in Russia. We believe this is the wrong approach. Sometimes, feed additives are not given the go-ahead to en- ter the Russian market, because Russian laboratories are not able to run certain tests on the components they contain,” says Mikhnyuk. “There are a lot of feed additives that could be used by the industry, bringing profits to farmers and advanc- ing agricultural science, but we have not been able to break through the administrative barriers,” Mikhnyuk adds.
When it comes to the import of feed additives into Russia there are some systemic and some minor problems. For in- stance, the decision by Rosselhoznador to check feed addi- tives for the presence of GMOs causes certain difficulties and yet, compared to the bigger issues importers have to deal with, it is considered to be not much more than a minor impediment,” according to Mikhnyuk. “We need to streamline the existing regulations. For example, we don’t even have clarity as to the definition of feed additives,” commented Dmi- try Denisov, director of Global Vit, explaining that sometimes it is not clear whether a certain substance should be submit- ted for registration onthe Russian market or not. There are no
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Russia is one of the world’s biggest feed additives importers, but the regulatory environment there is characterised by a number of systemic problems, which have yet to be solved.
questions about vitamins, but we also import minerals, whi- uch are used in premixes, and it is quite clear that we cannot register the entire periodic table. “The biggest problem is that we don’t really have any discussions with our regulators, including the Agricultural Ministry; there is no feedback, and things have just been getting worse over the past seven years,” commented a source in the Russian feed industry who wished to remain anonymous. “Sometimes we see some in- adequate actions by the authorities and truly ridiculous cases that cause problems for the business. We hope that the re- cent efforts by the National Feed Union will bear fruit and that there will be some positive changes. If we could move away from some of the current excessive regulations, which often contradict global best practice, this would really make our lives easier,” the source added. Russia imports a wide range of feed additives worth around Rub60 billion
Russian feed ad- ditive importers raise strong con- cerns about the situation regard- ing the import of lysine.
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