The US market will open for the Ukrainian poultry meat producers

Submitted by bashun on Mon, 05/21/2018 - 18:42

Ukraine and the United States intensified work on mutual access to markets. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine according to agropolit.com.

There was a delegation of the veterinary service of the Ministry of Agriculture of the United States of America in Ukraine last week.

During the visit representatives of the delegation of the Veterinary Service of the US Department of Agriculture held a series of meetings with the head of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection Volodymyr Lapa, specialists of the Food Safety and Veterinary Medicine Department and the Office for International Cooperation.

During the meetings, the American side initiated a discussion of technical adjustments to the package of veterinary certificates for the import into Ukraine of certain types of goods, in particular pet food, feed additives, poultry meat, technical gelatin (not for food consumption), milk and dairy products. On these issues, fruitful technical discussions took place between the experts, which will result in the adoption of appropriate decisions in the near future.

In turn, representatives of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection raised the issue of the status of consideration of the Ukrainian application for the export of Ukrainian poultry, the accreditation of which has been going on for the last two years.

In this regard the American side reported that the technical departments of the United States have already made a technical assessment of the questionnaire and materials provided by the Ukrainian side on the possibilities of poultry meat exports to the United States and the system of state control and safety oversight of food products.

Together with this the representatives of the American Veterinary Service announced their intention in the short term to carry out a verification visit to Ukraine on the assessment of the state control system for the production of poultry meat. Considering the fact that this will be the first visit of the competent departments of the USA to Ukraine, the mission representatives will also carry out an assessment of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection and its territorial bodies, the laboratory system, border points, etc.

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