Freezing of fish and meat proposed to be controlled via satellites

The business asked for almost 2 billion rubles from the budget for the new system.

On November 15, at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the committee on agriculture will discuss a draft law on temperature control of perishable products in transport. Vedomosti got acquainted with the explanatory note to the forthcoming draft law “On a continuous cold chain (CCC) of food products turnover in the Russian Federation”.

The bill provides for the development of a program for the development and regulatory support of the NHC in the field of production, storage, transportation and sale of perishables, requirements for its certification, and so on. it was developed by business structures, in particular the Association of Food Sector Organizations (ASORPS), but a representative of the ROSSELKHOZNADZOR said that the department is directly involved in the development of the initiative.

The testing of the NCC system took place in June-October 2020 during the transportation of perishable goods from the Far East to the central part of the Russian Federation, says Mikhail Sinev, President of ASORPS. Refrigerators were equipped with temperature sensors, electronic seals and other equipment connected to the ERA AFM based on the ERA-Glonass and Mercury systems of the Rosselkhoznadzor, which ensured interaction with the Federal State Information System in the field of veterinary medicine. For four months, 17 perishable shipments, including multimodal ones, were carried out. Telemetry was conducted from the moment of freezing to delivery to retailers, the maximum monitoring time was 32 days 23 hours (from the city of Artem in Primorye to St. Petersburg). Technically, everything is ready for the launch of the NCC, but there is no legislative framework that would oblige the installation of equipment on vehicles (TC), No coordinating body has been identified. ASORPS proposes to appoint the Ministry of Agriculture as such body (the media sent inquiries to the ministry and JSC Glonass).