ANSA to apply border controls based on risk analysis

Chisinau, February 10 /MOLDPRES/- The National Agency for Food Safety (ANSA) announced yesterday that applying the EU good practices in terms of risk-based border controls, it will ensure a more effective control of imported goods, authorizing the marketing of safe and harmless products for human consumption.

The agency informs economic agents importing products of non-animal origin that on February 8, an order was issued on the approval of the Regulation on the temporary intensification of official controls and emergency measures regulating the entry into the Republic of Moldova of certain goods from certain countries.

The Regulation includes the list of food products and feed for animals of non-animal origin from certain states, which are subject to a temporary intensification of official controls upon their entry into Moldova, established in the Regulation.

At the same time, ANSA warns economic operators to notify exporters, with whom they have economic relations, about the need to present, for each shipment of food products and animal feed, the results of sampling and analyzes carried out on the respective shipment by the competent authorities of the country of origin or from the one from which the shipment is dispatched, if it is different from the country of origin. It is also necessary to present, for each shipment of food products and animal feed, an official certificate, according to the National Agency for Food Safety.

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