UKR/188
WTO/SPS
UA Ukraine
  • 67 - Technologie alimentaire
2022-11-25
2022-09-27

Food products of animal origin

Draft Order of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine "On Approval of Hygienic Requirements for the Production and Placing on the Market of Food Products of Animal Origin". Language(s): Ukrainian. Number of pages: 83

The draft Order approves the hygienic requirements for the production and placing on the market of food products of animal origin (processed and unprocessed), in particular:

-         meat of domestic ungulates, hares, wild animals and wild animals raised on farms;

-         minced or chopped meat (minced meat), meat semi-finished products and meat of mechanical rolling;

-         meat products;

-         live bivalve molluscs, live echinoderms, live gastropods and live marine gastropods;

-         fish products;

-         eggs and egg products;

-         frog legs and snails;

-         melted animal fats and crackers;

-         processed stomachs, bladders and intestines;

-         highly purified chondroitin sulfate, hyaluronic acid, other hydrolyzed cartilage products, chitosan, glucosamine, rennet, fish glue and amino acids;

-         gelatin and collagen.

The requirements establish rules for food market operators on the hygiene of food products of animal origin, their production and placing on the market.

The draft Order is developed based on the requirements of the EU legislation, namely Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2014 laying down specific hygiene rules for on the hygiene of foodstuffs, Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs.

Hygienic requirements for the production and placing on the market of food products of animal origin, approved by this Order, shall be applied to food market operators who export or have declared to the competent authority their intention to carry out such export from the date of entry into force of this Order. Hygienic requirements for the production and placing on the market of food products of animal origin, approved by this Order, will be applied to all other operators of the food market in three years from the date of termination or cancellation of martial law.