The Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations recommends that the Parliament adopts the Bill on Amendments to the Law "On Milk and Dairy Products" (re Compliance of the Standards of Quality and Safety of Dairy Products with the Standards determined by Ukrainian Legislation) at the Second Reading and in its Entirety

18 May 2009, 11:08

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The Bill (Reg. No.0923) improves regulations of the effective Law appertaining to the quality and safety of dairy products.   

 

Pursuant to the Bill, "traditional dairy products include butter, cheese, fermented baked milk, sour milk, acidophilic milk, sour cream, cottage cheese, kefir produced from dairy raw material by means of established technologies with the use of ferments from pure lactid-acid and other bacterial cultures".

 

The Committee members took into account the amendment, pursuant to which "milk, dairy raw material and dairy products produced in Ukraine and imported to the customs territory of Ukraine shall comply with the standards of quality and safety determined by Ukrainian Law".