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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