Bakkafrost off-cuts banned by Russia after bacteria alert
Russian food safety authority Rosselkhoznadzor has imposed a temporary import ban on fresh and frozen salmon off-cuts from Faroese salmon farmer Bakkafrost’s flagship factory in Glyvrar.
In a statement to the Oslo stock exchange, Bakkafrost said the stated reason from Rosselkhoznadzor was that it has found bacteria in a sample of off-cuts imported into Russia.
Bakkafrost said the Faroese food authority Heilsufrøðisliga Starvsstova will inspect and go through all documentation at the factory today and respond to Russelkoznador next week.
As a consequence export of off-cuts to Russia from the Glyvrar factory will stop from 23 November 2018 until a further decision has been taken, added the company.
It said that it would be able to reallocate sales to other markets.
Producers in European Union countries and those allied to the EU, such as Norway, can’t sell to Russia because of an EU export ban imposed in response to Russian foreign policy in eastern Europe. But the Faroes are not part of the EU and not covered by the ban.
