The draft Order provides for amendments to the Order of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine No. 813 "On Approval of Hygienic Requirements for the Production and Circulation of Food Products of Animal Origin" of 20 October 2022 (notified as G/SPS/N/UKR/151) and approves requirements for certain quality indicators for poultry meat.
The draft Order is developed with consideration of the amendments made to Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 by the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No. 2022/2258, which entered into force on 8 December 2022 and provide, in particular:
• establishing new requirements for the transportation and storage of fish products in the case of using "supercooling" and three-layer polyethylene containers filled with water and ice; • updating approaches to the requirements for the production and circulation of eggs. In particular, the minimum shelf life is established for eggs obtained from Gallus gallus chickens and the deadline for delivery of eggs to the consumer is changed (21 days is replaced by 28 days);
• establishing new requirements for the production of highly purified animal products (in terms of requirements for fat processing products, flavors, and methods of processing raw materials).
The draft Order also establishes that:
1) hygienic requirements for the production and circulation of food products of animal origin, approved by this Order, will apply to food market operators engaged in export or have declared to the competent authority their intension to export, from the date of entry into force of this Order;
2) for food market operators engaged in the production and circulation of poultry meat, including chopped (minced or chopped) meat (minced meat), semi-finished meat products and mechanically deboned meat, as well as meat products made from poultry meat, the hygienic requirements for the production and circulation of food products of animal origin, approved by this Order, will apply from 1 January 2024;
3) for all other food market operators, Hygienic requirements for the production and circulation of food products of animal origin, approved by this Order, will apply in three years from the date of termination or cancellation of martial law.
It is also established that poultry meat, which meets the requirements of the legislation on safety and certain food quality indicators that entered in force before 1 January 2024, but does not meet all or some of provisions of the Requirements approved by paragraph 3 of this Order, may be placed on the market before the expiration of the minimum shelf life or the expiration date (the "use by" date).
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