OREANDA-NEWS. August 03, 2010. In Moldova the importers and sellers of fresh meat will be obliged to present the documents and information on its origin. This is stipulated by the Technical Regulations “Meat-raw materials. Production, import and sale”, approved by the Moldavian Government at the meeting on.

According to Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Valeriu Cosarciuc, the purpose is that the purchasers consumed the qualitative meat, knew on its origin, term of freshness, place and time of storage, country-importer of this meat in order to not consume the meat, being kept somewhere in Brazil for many years.

He said that the given Regulations have been elaborating since October 2009. In the course of numerous meetings with producers the importers have found a compromised variant of the document. The Regulations were elaborated taking into account the better practices, norms and standards of Moldova, Russia and Romania.

Its purpose is to guarantee the safety of the internal meat and meat products market, including of the procedures of evaluation of its conformity, criteria and technical requirements to national operators in this sector.