OREANDA-NEWS. August 19, 2014. Russian-bound food turned back at the border can be sold in Estonia if special permission has been granted by the Veterinary and Food Board and the sale outlet is furnished with Estonian-language information, the agency's director said. To this point no company has pursued this option.

"It is allowed in exceptional cases to market food packaged for the Russian market in Estonia, if a company needs to do so," said Ago Partel, the director general of the Veterinary and Food Board, on ERR radio.

Meanwhile, Partel said, the agency has been sending out letters to far-flung markets to inquire about import requirements for milk products. The countries included Indonesia, Taiwan, Kenya and Tanzania.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev announced on August 7 that Russia would slap a one-year ban on all EU, US, Australian, Canadian and Norwegian meat, dairy and produce. In particular, the Estonian dairy and fishery sector could be heavily impacted.