September 25, 2025
Russia, China seek mutual recognition of meat product standards
Russia and China have already aligned five standards for oilseed crop research and are now working toward mutual recognition of meat product standards, though the process is unlikely to conclude this year, according to Oksana Kuznetsova, Director of the Gorbatov Federal Research Centre for Food Systems, speaking at the Food Quality and Food Safety International Conference (FQFS 2025), as reported by Agroexpert.
"In 2024, we managed to recognise five standards for research into oilseed crops mutually. And now, using these methods, we do not need to additionally re-check when supplying our oilseeds and oils to China using Chinese methods," Kuznetsova said. "This year, we are working on recognising the standard for meat. Everything is more complicated there, as usual with meat, and I think that this year, unfortunately, we will not succeed. Nevertheless, we have very constructive work."
Artem Daushev, an assistant to the head of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor), who spoke at the conference, confirmed the service's forecast that Russia could export up to 1 million tonnes of meat this year via all permitted directions.
As reported by Rosselkhoznadzor, 87,900 tonnes of poultry meat and offal, 24,900 tonnes of pork, 21,900 tonnes of pork offal, 13,300 tonnes of beef, 3,100 tonnes of cattle offal and 596,400 tonnes of feed and feed additives had been shipped from Russia to China by the beginning of September.
According to China's General Administration of Customs, in January-August this year, Russia became the second-largest exporter of poultry meat to China after Brazil, shipping US$321.7 million worth of exports, up 17.8% compared to the figure for the same period last year ($272.98 million).
The fifth Food Quality Food Safety international conference is taking place in Moscow from September 23 to 25.
- Interfax
