Specifically, investors are saying that many laboratories in our country do not meet the demand, and the standards of developed countries are not recognized.
It was noted that in the current system, certification authorities are also carrying out market surveillance at the same time, which leads to a conflict of interests.
Our President listed some problems in the certification system and mentioned their solutions.
As emphasized, enterprises producing milk and meat products are dissatisfied with the system of obtaining Sanitary and Epidemiological Conclusion.
For instance, $100 million worth of children's food is imported annually. However, an entrepreneur bringing in modern equipment and building a factory cannot start production due to the lack of a Sanitary and Epidemiological Conclusion. And there is no standard for giving a conclusion.
The leadership of the committee was criticized for not taking the initiative to develop a standard together with the entrepreneur, just sitting back and saying “there is no standard for this product”.
Some local sanitary and epidemiological services are still demanding from the entrepreneur that each differently packaged batch of a single product be tested separately. This requires additional time and extra expenses.
The relevance of the quality to the different sizes of packaging of a product prepared at the same time raises questions.
Moreover, mineral water producers need to get a conclusion based on 45 indicators. Entrepreneurs go to the Sanitary and Epidemiological Service laboratories for 43 of these indicators and to other laboratories for the remaining 2.
The committee was tasked with organizing all tests in one place.
