Official says milk dispute to be settled within week

Kazimir Ramanouski, an aid to Belarus' agriculture minister, said that a dispute over Russia's milk import ban would be settled within a week.   Belarus will take all samples within two days and send them to Rospotrebnadzor's laboratory, BelTA quoted the official as saying.

 

After Russia introduced new technical standards, some of Belarusian samples were tested at Rospotrebnadzor's laboratory, while others were taken to other laboratories, whose conclusions were rejected by Russia's federal sanitary authority.

 

Rospotrebnadzor which banned the import of dairy products from Belarus earlier this month


Belarus used to export about $1 billion worth of dairy products to Russia per year.