The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of Russia (Rosselhoznadzor) decided to ban the import of meat and meat products from Moldova into Russia starting with October 27. The Russian news agency Itar-tass reported that the announcement was made by the Rosselhoznadzor chief Sergey Dankvert after a mission of experts inspected the meat factories of Moldova, IPN reports.

According to Dankvert, Moldova exports meat whose origin is not known as it is purchased from farmers or at village markets. The meat often does not meet the safety standards and there were cases when the veterinary certificates weren’t authentic.

Earlier Russia banned the import of wine, fruit and cans from Moldova and imposed customs duties on the rest of the imports from Moldova.