pilot project for serialziation of food supplements

[Blog] Russian pilot project for mandatory serialization of food supplements

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Russia established a pilot for marking of food supplements.

 

Russian government started a pilot project, announced in Decree №673, “On experimenting on labelling using the identification of biologically active food additives on the territory of the Russian Federation”. In April 2021, the National Track & Trace regulator stated that tracking food supplements will be subject to a pilot. In May the same year, the pilot was already a fact. It will run for 16 months till 31 August 2022.

 

Main questions:

 

1. How does digital marking work in production?

 

 

The steps of digital marking are as follows:

 

  Producers and importers:

  Create catalogues of markable products in their user accounts on Track & Trace Government System (TT GIS)

  Order ID code for each SKU (Stock Keeping Unit)

  Apply a Data Matrix code on each product package

  The product is ready for distribution/ sale to wholesalers/retail outlets

 


2. Which products must be labelled?

 

 

The National Track & Trace regulator shared the list of products with their Eurasian Economic Union Combined Nomenclature of Foreign Economic Activity (TN VED) codes. The list of products is as follows:

 

  • Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds, and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder
  • Locust beans, seaweeds, and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products (including unroasted)
  • Fish liver oils and their fractions with Vitamin A content not exceeding 2500 iu/g
  • Other fish fats, oils, and their fractions, other than fish liver oils, other than solid fractions
  • Other animal fats and oils and their fractions
  • Other edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or fractions of different fats or oils of this chapter, other than edible fats or oils
  • Other, including invert sugar and other sugar and sugar syrup blends containing in the dry state 50% by weight of fructose
  • Throat and cough lozenges not containing cocoa
  • Other products containing cocoa, in blocks, slabs, or bars, filled
  • Cocoa and cocoa preparations (other preparations containing cocoa, not filled but with added cereal grains, fruits, or nuts in blocks, slabs, or bars)
  • Other preparations containing cocoa, but not filled, in blocks, slabs, or bars
  • Preparations containing cocoa and intended for manufacture (preparation) of drinks
  • Other preparations containing cocoa
  • Preparations with a basis of extracts, essences, or concentrates of coffee
  • Other protein concentrates and textured protein substances
  • Other sugar syrups with flavouring or colouring additives
  • Other food preparations not containing butterfat, sucrose, isoglucose (i.e., high-fructose corn syrup), glucose, and starch, or containing less than 1. 5% by weight of butterfat, 5% by weight of sucrose or isoglucose, 5% by weight
  • Mixtures of vitamins and minerals for use as a balanced dietary supplement
  • Other food preparations not elsewhere specified or included
  • Sugar- (sucrose) free chewing gum and with a sugar substitute product
  • “Others” under Code 2202: “Beverages and spirits and vinegar.”
  • Other beverages not containing preparations of headings 0401 to 0404 or fat obtained from preparations of headings 0401 to 0404
  • Vitamins A and their derivatives
  • Cultures of microorganisms
  • Synthetic organic colouring matter and preparations based thereon, including mixtures of colouring matters of the subheadings 320411 to 320419
  • Other gelatin and its derivatives
  • Other prepared enzymes not elsewhere specified or included