The Fish Union ("Rybny Soyuz") sent the Ministry of Agriculture an additional argument for the need to change the norm for glaze in the technical regulations of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)
“Today, the norm of glazing in the production of frozen food products from fish should not exceed 5% of the mass of the product. A similar norm for cut or peeled crustaceans and products of their processing is 7%, and for other fish products - 8%,"the Fish Union recalled.
This rate is calculated taking into account the error, which ranges from 0.7% to 1.2%. However, the current standard does not take into account the realities of the market - the factory setting of the equipment used by Russian suppliers includes an error percentage of 2-4% - much more than GOST allows. Because of this, administrative cases are regularly initiated against conscientious importers and fines from 300 thousand (U$D 4,955.-) to 500 thousand rubles (U$D 8,260.-) are imposed, Fishnews was told in the industry association.
The Fish Union is in favor of changing the norm, which is irrelevant for the market. According to the association, now a special working group of the Ministry of Agriculture is considering summaries of reviews, comments and proposals to draft amendments No. 1 to the technical regulation of the Eurasian Economic Union "On the safety of fish and fish products" (TR EAEU 040/2016). The industry association sent additional arguments to the members of the working group - a copy of the operating manual for the enrobing machine. The document indicates the machine error for glaze: 2-4%.
Source: Fish Union (translated from original in russian)