Prohibited goods for import into Russia. What foods and liquids (food items) can be brought through security in checked baggage in the United States? Smuggled food

If you're flying to the US and want to take some food from home with you, you might be surprised to learn that customs prohibits food imports!

Many people heading to the US from all over the world want to take a little comfort from home with them in the form of their favorite foods, but airport security can easily confiscate those items!

Many people want to bring food into the United States because they are afraid they won't be able to find their favorite foods away from home. Most often, passengers take food from home for relatives and friends they are going to visit.

What seems harmless to you may seem harmless to the US security service threat!

Importing “contraband” (prohibited food and drink) may result in a fine of 10 thousand US dollars, so it's definitely worth knowing what you can and can't bring in your checked luggage.

Many tourists are not up to anything bad, they just want to take their favorite food with them, but there are very specific reasons why certain foods are so strictly prohibited for import. Our article takes a closer look at what foods can be packed in CHECKED baggage. Manual luggage regulated by different rules.

Why is food confiscated?

If your favorite fruits, vegetables and meat products are allowed in your country, US security is quite picky about what foods are allowed in their territory. They confiscate food to protect their country's agriculture.

Insect pests and plant infections that are common in agriculture in your country may not be common in the United States and can easily destroy crops and damage agriculture. For agricultural safety reasons, the United States prohibits the importation of certain fruits, vegetables, and meat products.

By the way, the list of food products prohibited for import into the United States is much longer than the list of permitted products. Such a ban on the import of fruits and other food products may seem counterintuitive, but just one insect pest or one plant infection can easily spread, causing a significant impact on food supplies.

Even wrapped candies (such as Chinese meat candies) are confiscated. It doesn't matter what country you come to the US from or what the US relationship is with your country, your food will be confiscated if it is prohibited.

A great example is avocados from Mexico. Although the US imports most of its avocado supply from Mexico, if you are a tourist and want to take avocados from Mexico with you to the US, the fruit will be confiscated unless you are bringing a very small number (one or two) whole and if they are registered in luggage

What happens to confiscated food?

When you arrive at the check-in/customs counter, your bag will be searched. If food is found in it, it will be confiscated and placed in a bin labeled “Contraband” where all confiscated food items are located.

When the basket is filled to the top, it is taken to the airport department with a “grinding table”, where the products are laid out and sent into a hole in the middle of the table, where there is a garbage crusher, which destroys all the products. You can see this process directly

Many people mistakenly believe that food is stored and eaten, or that it is not thrown away, and the security service is simply being capricious.

Food DOES get destroyed and it IS considered a threat to agriculture and livestock. The US has very high standards under Department of Agriculture regulations when it comes to food imports.

Many countries do not adhere to the same standards. To avoid lengthy inspection procedures, some countries allow the import of food products. Those products that are not permitted are confiscated and disposed of.

In general, the list of products allowed for import into the United States is quite extensive. It includes the following products:

Bakery:

Cookies, cakes and pastries (both purchased and homemade)

Most types of cheese:

Bought and prepared yourself

Seasonings like vegetable oil

Vinegar and other sauces - purchased or homemade - as long as the condiments are transported in sealed containers

Baby food

Baked goods are allowed, but only in packaging. Many types of cheese are allowed as long as they are carefully packaged. Many seasonings are allowed for transportation in their original containers. Meats, vegetables and fruits are almost never allowed unless they have been cooked in some way. Ultimately, the choice rests with the security service whether your food products will be allowed to be imported or not.

Of course, most products purchased ready-made and sealed in their original packaging will be accepted by customs, but there are also cases of refusal.

Another decisive factor that determines whether a food or drink will be considered dangerous or safe is quantity. If you only have a few packages of snacks in your checked baggage, they will probably go through without too much trouble (as long as you claim it). 25 bags of groceries may cause surprise and refusal from security.

Liquids (drinks)

T In fact, the list of drinks allowed for import is quite small.

You can check on the website the types of liquids that you can carry in your checked baggage. These include:

Alcoholic beverages, unless the bottle is sealed and the strength of the drink is below the prescribed level

Gravy, jams and jellies

Soups and yoghurts

Most often, baby food is allowed for import, as are liquid medications, as long as the containers containing them are labeled and sealed.

New “unopened” containers are more likely to pass customs than bottles and containers that are only partially filled or lack labels detailing their contents. Security will look more favorably on liquids if the container containing it is sealed. Unsealed containers are more likely to be confiscated.

According to the US Customs website

Many prepared foods, as long as they are unopened and labeled commercially, are permitted to be imported (with the exception of meat and processed meats). You can bring baked goods and many types of cheeses into the United States. Generally, seasonings, vinegar, vegetable oil, packaged spices, honey, coffee, fish, tea and baby food are allowed to be imported. Since rice can often contain harmful insects, the US security service does not allow its import into its territory, especially if the rice is imported in open canvas bags. Food in packages that may appear unsafe or contaminated to security may be prohibited from importation.

- help.cbp.gov

You can take a look at the list of fruits and vegetables in the Animal and Plant Health Services section ( APHIS ) to find out which fruits and vegetables you can bring into the United States from ,but here's a little hint: There is no guarantee that you will be allowed to bring any fruits, vegetables or meats into the US!

In addition, US Customs and Border Protection reminds:

All agricultural products must be declared and inspected by a US Customs and Border Protection agricultural specialist at border crossings to ensure that the imported products are free of pests or infections. Products prohibited or restricted from import may include meat, fresh fruits and vegetables, seeds, soil, and products made from animal or plant materials.

— www.cbp.gov

Your best bet

If you REALLY need to take certain food items with you into the US, you should make sure they are legal before you pack them, otherwise it will only be a waste of time and money.

Frankly, there are plenty of stores in the US that offer a wide variety of ethnic foods, and you can easily find something that will remind you of your homeland. You can also avoid worry and stress if you simply leave all your food at home and just enjoy your trip.

There are huge numbers of hungry people in the United States and Europe, and American and European authorities prefer to destroy contraband food and illicit goods rather than distribute them to the hungry and suffering.

This is how Americans deal with food that is prohibited from being imported into the United States:
My beloved girl went through US customs on Wednesday.

Nothing so unusual - verbena, harissa and dried meat from Tunisia, truffles from France (probably Algerian), and she had a conference in Barcelona.

The dog at the airport immediately picked up the scent, and the smart policemen came after it: so this is your jamon - it is prohibited; Well, holy shit - you also have chorizo ​​(Spanish sausages); and why does verbena smell like lemon - citrus fruits are prohibited; oh, mushrooms - put them here; you have pepper seeds in harissa - you can’t; You are bringing so much dry mint - you can’t, there are probably bad bugs in there...

At the airport there is something like a food vacuum cleaner - everything was compacted there before her eyes and loaded into a large trash can.

But all this was prepared with love by her family and friends.

If anyone doesn’t know, 50 million people in the United States go to bed hungry, 20 million of them are children.
But it would seem: they had their own gulags - I go there for fishing; and famines - all the main routes were built in the 30s by workers for food once a day.

The Internet was filled with a loud howl from the unshakable community: the bloody Putin regime committed a monstrous crime by sending “leftist” parmesan, jamon and other sanctioned products (coming to us mainly through the leaky Ukrainian border) straight into the shredder.

At the same time, there were also traditional comparisons between “damned Russia” and prosperous America. And especially for the latter, we suggest watching a short video about what they do with smuggled delicacies in the USA.

And this is how Americans destroy counterfeit cars - instead of giving them to some needy guys from black ghettos:

Food smuggling is destroyed in a similar way in Israel, by the hundreds of tons:

Smuggling from the PA to Israel

The Israeli Ministry of Agriculture reports that attempts to smuggle PA products into Israel have recently increased sharply.

In particular, we are talking about falsification of veterinary service seals on eggs, as well as meat, which has not passed the appropriate checks in Israel and may pose a health hazard.

Over the course of a week, inspectors from the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture seized and destroyed 500,000 eggs, 700 kilograms of cheese and 180 tons of meat.

Have you tried, for example, to bring cheese, dairy products, or meat products, for example, to Germany?
Who doesn’t know, even for you, as a private individual, all of this that I have listed will be confiscated and put in a special turnkey container for disposal, and they will dispose of it at your expense... and they will also be fined. Just like that. And Russia is doing the same thing that its Western partners have been doing for many decades.
The Germans have the argument that you can carry microorganisms on your products that will ruin their food production... Supposedly there have already been cases when dairies suffered huge losses due to contamination with foreign microorganisms...

And our Western partners can be understood - after all, this is a very effective method of combating smuggling.
It is always a pity to destroy the fruits of labor - be it your own or someone else's. But sometimes it is necessary. Escaping from the advancing Nazi hordes, our people with their own hands destroyed everything that could not be evacuated - they burned wheat fields and gas storage facilities, blew up bridges and factory buildings...

I believe that even now the extreme measure will show the people: the fight is going on in earnest - they are fighting against us in such a way that we will have to strain all our strength to win. So, with a competent explanation of the reasons for a seemingly barbaric act, we can hope for its transformation into one of the sources of moral strength that is so necessary for us in confrontation with those who usually call themselves “the whole world.”

By the way, about this naming. Those who are in one way or another involved in the current sanctions against the Russian Federation represent about 1/8 of the Earth's population, and in its economy they occupy - according to their own statistics - about 1/2. If we clear these statistics of at least the most obvious mark-ups, which have been ridiculed even by their own economists for many years, then their share in the world economy turns out to be - according to various estimates - in the range of 1/4–1/3.
Consequently, with a competent domestic and foreign policy, 7/8 of humanity and 2/3–3/4 of the human economy can become our allies. To do this, we need, in particular, to explain the expediency of our actions - including the decree on the destruction of goods imported in circumvention of our ban - not only to ourselves, but indeed to the whole world.

Let me start with why it is necessary not only to return goods from countries openly hostile to us from our customs (as has been the case for a year), but to confiscate them from their owners (or intermediaries), as is done all over the world (including in our country). country) with other contraband items - import or export in violation of the order established by the state.

First of all, let me remind you: smuggling has been considered a crime everywhere and since time immemorial. And for general and obvious legal reasons, the instrument of crime must be confiscated from the criminal, if only so that he does not have the opportunity to commit a second attempt at the offense. But there is also an economic consideration in favor of withdrawal.

In the science fiction action movie “The Fortress” (1992), the computer that controls the prison of the future ends almost every ad with the words “crime does not pay.” In the Russian voiceover of the film I saw, this is translated “you have to pay for the crime.” Meanwhile, the idea here is completely different: “crime doesn’t pay.” In the English-speaking world, this rule is considered generally accepted and well known. True, it is usually interpreted as “crime should not pay.”

For example, in the set of requirements for a properly constructed work of the detective genre that has existed since the late 1920s, there is an indication that by the end of the work it should be obvious: the criminal was not able to derive the expected benefit from his act.

Moreover, this wish also has a scientific basis. The Swedish Bank Prize for Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Bernhard Emmanuelevich Nobel (1833.10.21–1896.12.10), established in 1968 and first awarded in 1969, was received in 1992 by Gary Stanley [I don’t know his middle name] Becker (1930.12.02–2014.05.03) "for his studies of a wide range of problems of human behavior and response, not limited only to market behavior." He, in particular, proved: if the average (taking into account the time spent in prison) income of a criminal in a certain social stratum exceeds the average income of an honest citizen for the same stratum, then crime in this stratum will increase uncontrollably.

If a contraband item is simply not allowed to cross the border, its owner may subsequently try to sell it elsewhere - albeit for less profit. Thus, stopping the attempted crime will not cause him any harm. Only seizure can reduce the average income of smugglers to less than in fair trade.

But why then is confiscated food ordered to be destroyed and not sold within our country? Indeed, in this case, the lawbreakers will suffer the very loss that is prescribed by the economic theory of crime suppression, and our people will not suffer any damage!

Let us remember: almost all of our compatriots who criticize the presidential decree of 2015.07.29 belong to the liberal flank of political emotions.

Many of them, in their publications on other occasions, in one way or another approve of the practice, popular in a market economy, of destroying part of a product in order to maintain high prices for it.

In particular, the textbook well-known mass destruction of food at the beginning of the First Great Depression - literally in front of the eyes of tens of millions of people who were on the verge of starvation due to the loss of sources of income - does not cause the slightest objection from them: they say, otherwise farmers would go bankrupt and there would be no one to it would be to grow new crops (the fact that at the beginning of the depression it was farmers who went bankrupt en masse and among the starving people they made up almost the majority does not in any way concern these authors).

Now let us remind you: almost all domestic agricultural producers complain about the generous subsidies received by their foreign competitors. They themselves participated in drawing up the rules of the World Trade Organization, officially prohibiting state subsidies of production, and left a myriad of cracks where cash flows for them.

For us, the WTO has left almost no opportunities for subsidizing our economic activities (and even those that exist are underutilized by the economic bloc of the Russian government, which reveres the Washington Consensus and other methods of suppressing economic development above the commandments of God's WTO). Therefore, imported food - regardless of the real costs of its creation - is sold on our market noticeably cheaper than domestic products of comparable quality and taste. Which really does not in any way contribute to our economic activity.

If confiscated food is sold on the domestic market (and even at a cheap price, as critics of the presidential decree suggest), the strangulation of our agriculture will continue. As a quarter-century of domestic experience has shown, foreign dumping - selling at artificially low prices - is incomparably more reliable than any sanctions in killing our attempts to recreate the economy.

Now our defenders of human rights, advocates of the country’s openness to everything foreign, and other liberoids who believe that the sun rises in the West, propose to continue this practice. There is no doubt: the Western organizers of the sanctions will agree to fully compensate for the losses of any smuggler if the food confiscated from him helps the starvation of our village.

That is why anyone who is capable, in the words of Vitaliy Vladimirovich Klitschko, of “looking into tomorrow today” will prefer to tighten his belt for a while. Especially on the bellies of jam-eaters, those who know how to distinguish the taste of Riga and Kaliningrad sprats, opponents of Krasnodar Roquefort and other rank and file of the information front fighting on the opposite side from us.

I believe that from our side of the same front there should be clarifications on this matter, accessible not only to our own citizens, but also to those who are still neutral in the war of those who want to preserve the old structure of the world economy with those (including us) who want lead it away from its current path, which has already given rise to the Second Great Depression.

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Those who yesterday called not to feel sorry for those who do not fit into the market are today shedding bitter tears about the 16 million below the poverty line, whom the insidious authorities are depriving of their last source of food. Many citizens who are far from politics also fall for pity, sincerely wondering why this cheese cannot be distributed to the poor. Really, why?

The answer is complex in its simplicity: Because it's not cheese!

All this customs confiscation is not cheese, but “a plastic mass that looks and smells like cheese.” Why so harsh? Because if a product is imported across the border officially, then it has accompanying and certification documents (and the strictness of our food control is confirmed by regular bans on the supply of some products due to yet another problem found). So these documents:

1. Confirm that this product meets our standards and is safe for the public;

2. In case of any problems, they ensure product traceability (from which country, from which factory, when manufactured, who packaged it, etc.).

So, if the goods are going to be smuggled, then it will not have any accompanying (let alone certification) documents, and, accordingly, no one will be able to confirm that it is cheese! It’s not a fact that it’s bad, but it’s unknown, and since there’s no way to eliminate this unknown, it’s better to get rid of it, which is what our authorities are doing (and, by the way, this is the norm for most customs offices around the world). After all, if the population begins to poison itself, then the state will be the first to blame...

After familiarizing themselves with the above facts, liberals take the position that yes, the products are without documents, but organizing an examination and checking it is a matter of a few days. With such statements, these figures want to harm Russia even more.

Let me explain that to use counter-sanction products you need to create an entire infrastructure. Warehouses, refrigerators, transport, accounting, commodity examination, personnel who need to be paid salaries with deductions from it, offices, offices, distribution, electricity, refrigerators, etc., etc. And the flow of counter-sanctioned smuggled products is irregular and should, in theory, come to nothing! It will cost the state too much to distribute confiscated food to those in need for free! And it’s not a fact that it would be free or at a reduced cost...”

Russia will introduce a ban on the use of genetically modified products, which have long been abandoned in many EU countries.

What other products are banned in the West, but are sold freely in Russia? Isn't it time to ban them here? Tells Oleg Medvedev, professor at Moscow State University, head of the National Center for Healthy Nutrition.

GMO products

— They were created as “food for the poor” - they planned to feed the starving population of Africa. Then experts decided that they were the future (they are stored for a long time, are not afraid of pests and allow you to get a high yield). As a result, some countries (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay) abandoned soybean seeds and completely devoted their fields to GMO crops.

Later, scientists recognized that the long-term consequences of using GMO products are difficult to predict and can lead to an increase in various diseases. Switzerland, Germany, Serbia, etc. have declared themselves GMO-free zones. Now.

Products with synthetic hormones

(meat and meat products)

Banned in the European Union, Australia, Canada, Israel and New Zealand.

Hormones are to animal husbandry what protein shakes are to bodybuilding enthusiasts. They help to achieve rapid weight gain in animals, and the use of growth hormone helps increase milk production. It has been convincingly proven that hormones that enter the human body can cause breast, colon and prostate cancer.

Theoretically, in Russia the use of hormones in animal husbandry is prohibited by law, but meat grown on the domestic market, unlike imported meat, is not subject to control.

Products with artificial trans fats

(leaders in content are some margarines and spreads, hydrogenated vegetable oil, semi-finished products, chips, long-lasting confectionery products)

Trans fats began to be widely used in the 50s of the last century, in the wake of the fight against harmful animals with saturated fats. Trans fats were positioned as a safe replacement. However, it quickly became clear that they accumulate in the body and this leads to the occurrence of severe diseases (diabetes, atherosclerosis), memory impairment, and also a decrease in the ability to conceive.

WHO experts believe that there is no minimum safe level of trans fat consumption and the only way out is to ban them completely. Despite protests from the food industry (the use of trans fats makes food production cheaper), many countries have introduced restrictions on the content of these dangerous substances in food products, and in Denmark, Austria, Sweden, Iceland, Norway and Finland, trans fats are completely prohibited. The US Food and Drug Administration has also ordered the food industry to eliminate all trans fats within three years. There is a danger that foreign producers will redirect their products to Russia, where the content of trans fats is not controlled at all.

In Europe, food bans for political reasons also exist. In particular, for ethical reasons the following is prohibited:
Foie gras
The French delicacy, which came under sanctions in Russia, is also prohibited in all EU countries (except France and Hungary), Turkey and Israel. The ban is associated with cruelty to animals - the liver is obtained by forcibly overfeeding the bird (because of this, the liver - the basis of foie gras - enlarges).
horsemeat
Banned in the USA, Ireland, Australia and Canada.
This ban has nothing to do with harm or benefit - eating horse meat is not encouraged by the Catholic Church. In the USA and England it is prohibited to eat sports animals.

Products with artificial colors

(cookies, ice cream, dry snacks, desserts)

The fact that natural dyes from vegetables and fruits are better than artificial ones is obvious to everyone. However, even among the unhealthy artificial ones there are potentially dangerous ones that are prohibited everywhere except in Russia.

E425 - food stabilizer, thickener. It is used in the preparation of marmalade, fruit jelly, preserves, jam, fruit filling for candies, etc. In the European Union and the United States, after the media hype about several cases of suffocation in young children, a ban was even introduced.

Raw milk

In Russia, raw milk is sold in farm stores and markets. Retail chains do not sell it due to its short shelf life.

Farmed Salmon

Banned in Australia and New Zealand.

Fish raised in captivity lacks most of its beneficial properties. She is fed mainly with waste; yeast (for rapid growth) and dyes (to give a natural color) are also added to the food. Eating salmon raised in captivity can lead to nervous system disorders and cancer.

As you know, over the past two years, Russia has been repeatedly subject to sanctions from many countries. This situation in the country has developed primarily due to the very difficult relationship between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. That is why in 2014 the Russian government developed a bill that came into force in August 2015. It implies a ban on the import of the main categories of goods and food products from countries that have applied sanctions against the Russian state.

Today it is prohibited to import certain goods and food products from:

1. United States of America.
2. Ukraine.
3. Countries that are part of the European Union.
4. Canada.
5. Norway.
6. Australia.

It should be recalled that the application of sanctions began back in 2014. It was then that a list of goods prohibited for import from some European countries was developed. The list of goods is valid in 2019.

List of prohibited goods for import into the Russian Federation

Prohibited goods and food products are products that were manufactured directly on the territory of those countries that introduced sanctions last year. That is, in 2019 it is prohibited to import goods manufactured in:

It is important to remember that the bill only came into force in August 2015. The list of prohibited goods and food products is very extensive and covers almost the entire Russian consumer market. In 2019, you cannot import meat from the above countries.

Moreover, this rule does not apply to all types, but only to beef, veal and poultry. The list of prohibited goods also includes the internal organs of these animals. That is, the liver, lungs, and heart are also prohibited.

The important point is that the ban applies to meat in any form. Chilled, frozen, salted products are also prohibited, as is the carcass of live poultry (duck, chicken, turkey, guinea fowl). It is impossible to transport such products across the Russian border.
If such a product is identified, customs officers have every right to confiscate it and even have the right to impose a fine on a person for attempting to import such products.

The list of prohibited products also includes representatives of the aquatic world. These include:

1. Rakov.
2. Shellfish.
3. Fish.

In 2019, the ban affected almost all varieties of fish. It is important to remember that fish cannot be transported either live or in any other form (frozen, chilled or canned.). A detailed list of prohibited fish is presented below. But it is also necessary to take into account that there are several varieties of fish that are prohibited fresh, but are completely permitted in the form of individual fillets.
The following types of fish cannot be transported fresh or chilled:

The entire list of fish products presented above cannot be imported in the form of whole carcasses. The exceptions are the milt, liver and caviar of these fish. It is also prohibited to import all of the above types of fish frozen or in the form of minced meat.

All other types of fish can be imported into the territory of the Russian Federation. The ban regulates only those fish that have been subjected to heat treatment (smoking) or another method of preparation (salting, drying). Fish in any brine is also prohibited.
In this case, not only the fish carcasses themselves, but also its components are not allowed into Russia.
The ban also applies to:

1. Rakov.
2. Grebeshkov.
3. Shellfish.
4. Oysters
5. Mussels.
6. Snails, with the exception of liparis.
7. Cuttlefish.
8. Abalone.
9. Clems.
10. Octopuses.
11. Holothurium.
12. Sea urchins.
13. Jellyfish.
14. Squid.

The list of prohibited products also includes dairy products, which include:

1. Whey.
2. Cream (condensed or not condensed).
3. Milk.
4. Cottage cheese.
5. Butter.
6. Pastes based on dairy products.

Forbidden foods in 2019 also include all types of cheese.
The ban also applies to many vegetable crops. It is prohibited to import:

All of the above products are not allowed to be imported in any form.
Regarding nuts, the following varieties can be distinguished that are prohibited for import:

1. Cashew nuts.
2. Brazilian.
3. Coconut.
4. Gretsky.
5. Pistachios.
6. Fishing line.
7. Areca.

It is also prohibited to import many fruits such as:

Russia also announced last year that all sausages or prepared products would also be included in the list of prohibited import products.

A ban on the import of such a huge number of goods could provoke not only a shortage of products needed by the population, but also a very rapid increase in their cost. But the United States is not the only state whose products have been banned by the Russian Federation.

Ukrainian products have no less list, the import of which in 2019 is strictly regulated by current legislation.

Products from Ukraine

The imposition of bans on the import of certain goods from Ukrainian manufacturers began back in 2014, along with the first sanctions of the European Union against the Russian state. By 2019, this list of prohibited products had almost doubled.

A rather important aspect is the fact that the ban was imposed on Ukrainian goods gradually in comparison with European goods. In the case of EU countries, the list of prohibited products was compiled once and has not been modified during the entire period of validity of legislative norms.

The first prohibited goods imported into Russia were confectionery products of the Konti and AVK brands. The representative office of Rospotrebnadzor discovered a violation of basic requirements for the protection of consumer rights.
Second in line was Ukrainian alcohol, or rather vodka, cognac and beer. The ban affected such brands as:

1. "Obolon".
2. "Khortitsa".
3. "Chernigovskoe".
4. "Shustov".

In 2015, the list of prohibited goods also included:

1. Soya beans.
2. Sunflower.
3. Corn grits.
4. Soybean meal.

Also in 2014, a ban was imposed on Ukrainian-made juices. In the same year, baby food manufactured in Ukraine was also included in the list of prohibited goods. The main reason for the ban on these categories of goods was the non-compliance with the technical standards put forward by the Customs Union. And, as you know, the Russian Federation is a member of the Customs Union.
Canned fish, vegetables and meat in industrial packaging were also banned. But in this case, the ban applies only to products manufactured in canneries such as:

1. Odessa.
2. Vinnitsky.
3. Nezhinsky.

Unfortunately, forbidden foods also include milk and dairy products. This decision of the Russian Federation is determined by the unsafety of the products for the human body. According to Rosselkhoznadzor employees, it is in dairy products that palm fat is used, the composition and origin of which is unknown.

You can also add potatoes grown on Ukrainian territory to the list of prohibited products.
The reason is the identification of the golden nematode, which, when entering the human body, can cause very negative consequences. Pork also became prohibited in 2014. But this norm applies only to fresh, frozen or chilled meat. Pork products that have undergone heat treatment are permitted in Russia.

Few people know that the imposition of bans on the import of products began back in 2013 with the Roshen trademark.

Then Rosselkhoznadzor employees discovered violations in the confectionery manufacturing technology. According to employees, this directly affected the quality of the confectionery products themselves.

The destruction of smuggled food products, as expected, raised a wave of indignation in the liberal press.

It’s too convenient a topic not to work on it.

The scheme is simple: at one pole, customs officers crush cheese with rollers, and at the other, someone is malnourished, under-drinking, etc.

A classic situation suitable for inciting discontent with the authorities while shouting: “How can this be, fear God! It would be better if they gave it to the poor, took it to orphanages, and distributed it among the veterans!”

The fact that there is not enough food for everyone is not taken into account.

As well as the fact that tomorrow its flow will dry up, as frightened smugglers will stop trying to illegally enter our market. And no one really thinks about the fact that for distribution it is necessary to create special structures and finance them.

The power of thought among liberals does not extend that far. They should shout something sonorous, daring and listen to the echo with a satisfied look. That's all.

By the way, no one talks about how the West would laugh at the efforts to distribute confiscated food.

Although it can be assumed that there would be no less noise than with Yukos, and the owners of the contraband would immediately run to the ECHR and other fair places to try to recover billions of euros from Russia for the lost goods.