August 20, 2014 — The list includes smolt of salmon and trout, lactose-free milk and milk products, food supplements, seed potatoes, set onions, sweet corn for sowing and peas for sowing. Also vitamin and mineral supplements, flavor additives and protein concentrates of animal and vegetable origins are excluded from the ban, Forbes reports.
The decree, which was signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, clearly states that smolt of salmon and trout is excluded from the ban. The Russian Fish Union last week warned that Russia will have slaughtered its last farmed salmon by 2016 if the import of smolt from Norway is not resumed. Russia does not have any smolt production of its own yet.
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