Peter is boycotting Mercury's e-certification system. In simple words: Electronic Veterinary Certification
From January 1, 2018 throughout Russia and Customs Union mandatory electronic veterinary certification (EVC) is being introduced, both agricultural producers and processors, wholesale and retail stores, enterprises should introduce the electronic system "Mercury" Catering, and kindergartens, schools, hospitals receiving products.
All documents of veterinary control will be valid only in in electronic format are issued for products of animal origin of the entire cycle “from field to plate”, along the entire chain from origin (production, processing) to the point of sale, including transportation routes . .
The new system will make it possible to automatically record the incoming and outgoing volume of products at the enterprise (refrigerator, warehouse, checkpoint, etc.), enter and store information about the samples taken for the study of imported products, track the movement of a consignment across the territory of the Russian Federation, taking into account its crushing to end consumer: trade enterprises and public catering.
Accompanying veterinary documents will also be required for the transportation of goods of animal origin (including fish). Shops in the districts of the region and wholesale depots will also have to use the connection to the "Mercury" system for electronic cancellation of issued documents.
Electronic certificates must be issued when receiving and moving products before retail stores and catering facilities.
From January 1, 2018, for the absence of electronic accompanying documents violators will pay fines, as well as restricting the access of livestock products to retail chains.
Each enterprise, depending on the category, included in the scope of food production is required to have an authorized person and / or a certified specialist who can carry out veterinary certification of certain groups of goods along with employees of the state veterinary service.
The system of electronic veterinary certification "Mercury" should protect the consumer from low-quality and unsafe products and make the actions of supervisory authorities effective in combating fraud and excluding unreliable suppliers
On the one hand, it is a good thing - control over the quality of products is being strengthened, and paper veterinary certificates are being canceled, but.......
Involuntarily, you will remember the words of Chernomyrdin: We wanted the best, but it turned out as always!
I hope you remember very well the ideas that I voiced in a series of articles on AS: Russia is, as always, ahead of the planet: from capitalism to computer capitalism, and possibly to computer socialism
I claimed that
in the Russian Federation, the state is consistently building a General Integrated State System (OIGS), which will contain all information on economic activity in the Russian Federation - all shipments, payments, waybills, releases up to a unit of all goods, all salaries and dividend payments.
including parallel there is a process rejection of cash. As a result, this will lead to a significant reduction in the shadow sector, gray salaries, increase tax base and the ability to control price collusion and kickback systems in public procurement.
1) As I said, all departments are implementing their systems everywhere - so far it turns out a garden: one system is being built by industrialists, another by the Rosselkhoznadzor, a third by a banking system, a fourth by tax officials.
So far, there is no single governing body in the Government to bring all these disparate systems into single base. Such a body is still in the plans (I will have an article about it).
2) Since all systems are introduced in parallel, the result for business is not a boon, but one headache. After all, they are forced to carry out the same operation using different information systems. This does not reduce the burden on the business, but rather increases it.
3) Business is already beginning to get bored with this bureaucratic lawlessness - why duplicate the same information many times in different information systems. Moreover, the bureaucracy, trying to make money on a "fashionable" digital topic, saves on the very quality of implementation, as a result, the business must work with a "raw" and low-quality product, with the impossibility of carrying out the operations required by law through "crooked" computer systems.
4) In the implementation of "numbers" you need Government program rather than the chaotic actions of individual ministries. A single body for the implementation of automation in Russia.
Today we will talk about the Mercury system (EMS) here latest news from the fields: Kommersant Food without a number (Regions are in no hurry with electronic veterinary certification of products)
The Ministry of Agriculture informed the government about the difficulties with the introduction of electronic veterinary certification (EVC), which will become mandatory for livestock products from 2018. Among the issues are the lack of funding for the process in the regions, the lack of staff and problems with Internet access. The hasty introduction of the system may cause an increase in food prices and stop the work of enterprises, market participants fear. A report on preparations for the introduction of EMU, which should become mandatory from January 1, 2018, was sent to the government by the Ministry of Agriculture last week. As stated in the document (Kommersant has it), an analysis of the opinions of officials of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation shows that in several regions there are “certain difficulties” that complicate the widespread use of the EMU system in specified period. These include low funding for the implementation of EMU in the regions, lack of access to the Internet, lack of personnel for the operation of the state information system "Mercury" (intended for electronic certification controlled goods and tracking their movement) from small enterprises. The report also notes the prevailing negative opinion of market participants associated with the "technical imperfection" of "Mercury", and the unwillingness to finance technical equipment EMU process until 2018. In 13 regions, including St. Petersburg, less than 100 participants are now registered with Mercury, the Ministry of Agriculture writes.
Mandatory EMU is introduced for products of animal origin, including milk, meat, and fish. It should apply to both raw materials and finished products. The operator of "Mercury" is Rosselkhoznadzor. According to him, in August 2017, 8.29 million electronic certificates were voluntarily issued through the system. Of these, 1.12 million documents were issued for meat and meat products, 1.39 million - for poultry meat, 173.7 thousand - for raw milk, 817.7 thousand - for fish and seafood, 4.29 million - for finished products.
The data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture show that the level of readiness of the industry for the transition to EMU is low and it is obvious that the system will not be able to work in full mode from January 1, 2018, says Artem Belov, executive director of the National Union of Milk Producers. According to him, tens of thousands of enterprises and households must connect to the system just to distribute EMU for raw milk, "it is obvious that they will not have time to do this." The postponement of the mandatory transition to the EMU in the current situation would be justified, agrees the president of the association "Vetbezopasnost" (unites veterinarians, employees of specialized research institutes) Lilia Surgucheva. “Today, in order to ensure the circulation of controlled goods, paper documents are being processed; this system has been worked out and has proven its effectiveness. With a one-time transition to an electronic form, any technical failure can lead to a process stop and, as a result, to financial losses market participants,” she explains.
“Three months before commissioning, the system, in fact, does not work. Its introduction from January 2018 in any form will lead to a halt in the work of the largest food companies throughout the country, ”the source of Kommersant in a large food manufacturer worries. He believes that the hasty introduction of EMU in the food market may lead to difficulties similar to the introduction of the Unified State Automated Information System in the alcohol industry in 2006, and will cause an increase in food prices. Nikolai Vlasov, Deputy Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor, previously admitted that the introduction of EMU could affect the cost of production, but emphasized that we are talking about "hundredths or even thousandths of a percent."
The head of the National Meat Association, Sergei Yushin, on the contrary, does not consider it necessary to postpone the introduction of EMU. He is sure that new system control will benefit the entire market. “Today, there are still dozens, if not hundreds, of producers, especially in the regions, who use unsafe raw materials of unknown origin,” notes Mr. Yushin.
The Ministry of Agriculture stated that the introduction of EMU is going on in all regions with different intensity as planned. The representative of the Rosselkhoznadzor says that the country's leadership does not consider it expedient to postpone the introduction of the EMU. “The procedure has been going on for several years already, and economic entities have been given enough time to make the transition. Moreover, many have been working in the new conditions for a long time,” he notes. According to a Kommersant source in the industry, the issue of introducing EMU will be discussed at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich next Monday, September 18. Aliya Samigullina, a representative of Mr. Dvorkovich, did not comment on this.
1) It is felt that business has already begun to get tired of the excessive and crookedly carried out automation of state control.
2) A single center and a single state automation program understandable to business is required.
The volume of cheese production in the Russian Federation is a controversial figure, noted during the conference "Prospects for the development of Cheese making in Russia. Place Altai Territory and the Republic of Altai" director of the Dairy Market Research Center (TsIMR) Mikhail Mishchenko. According to the expert, cheese production in Russia includes cheese, a cheese product, processed cheese and packaged cheese. However, packaged cheese is often contraband. This is reported by the correspondent of The DairyNews from the "Move the road to milk" motor rally.
According to CIMR, Russia produces just over 357 thousand tons of cheese and 168.6 thousand tons of cheese products. In addition, Mikhail Mishchenko emphasized that cottage cheese is included in these data. "The traditional cheese for Russia is cottage cheese, a product that is produced using cheese technology, is regarded as cheese when we evaluate imports," Mikhail Mishchenko explained.
“Sometimes we can see smuggling, the farther from Moscow, the more such products. subsidiary"ALLGOY"). We went to the website of the Rosselkhoznadzor, it says that the German company that supplies this cheese is included in the register of enterprises in Armenia. It turns out that all products come to Armenia from Europe, and then come to us. We are told about traceability, about Mercury. But this system doesn't work. We are deliberately put in a disadvantageous situation," Mikhail Mishchenko stressed.
The supplier company did not answer who is the manufacturer of the raw materials it sells, the director of the CIMR said during the conference, emphasizing that "Allgoy" LLC declared that it is a manufacturer of sliced cheese and can indicate itself as a manufacturer of the finished product. "Cutting cheese - this technological process. Products at the enterprise are produced according to TU 9225-001-58128841-14. Part 3.8 of TR TS 022/2011 states that “Products not packaged at their place of manufacture<…>must contain the information on the manufacturer provided for in Clause 1 of Part 4.8 of this Article<…>packaging food products not at the place of their manufacture for subsequent sale ... Since our company is a manufacturer of a packaged product, we are subject to clause 1 of part 4.8: “The name and location of the food product manufacturer are indicated on the labeling of food products, regardless of the food production territory of the Member States of the Customs Union or supplied from third countries. The location of the manufacturer of food products is determined by the place state registration organization or individual entrepreneur", - Mikhail Mishchenko cited a letter from the packing company.
According to the expert, the current situation is the result of the criminal negligence of the Rosselkhoznadzor. 
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The enterprise of the dairy industry, which integrated its information systems with the Federal State Information System "Mercury" as an experiment, notes that the issuance of electronic veterinary certificates increases the time of product production, logistics operations, and also threatens the information security of the enterprise.
In Russia, from January 1, 2018, a mandatory electronic veterinary certification system (EVS) is being introduced for goods subject to veterinary control using the Federal state system"Mercury". This process will cover three stages of production and business processes of dairy enterprises. This is, first of all, the purchase and acceptance of raw milk, the production and processing of raw milk into a finished product, and the direct sale of the product to shops and retail chains.
To study the processes of interaction of FSIS "Mercury" with production information systems, the most progressive and large Russian enterprises as an experiment, they introduced an EMU statement for all operations related to the production of dairy products. The first thing that one of the company's managers (who asks not to give his first and last name) faced was a significant increase in the time of technological operations and transitions.
“We have the latest information systems installed at our enterprise, which allow us to collect all the technological data (weight, temperature, etc.) necessary for production in automatic mode. Despite this, it takes about 20 minutes to fill the EMU at each technological transition. Let's say you bottled kefir, received an EMU for this transition, and immediately you need to switch to packaging. It's no secret that you can pack two or three batches from one container. But in order to get permission for the second packing, you must request an EMU, and it is not known how long you will receive information from the Internet, and this significantly increases the time for obtaining finished products. Perhaps, over time, this process will take not 20 minutes, but three minutes, - the leader expressed his hope. - But so far we are faced with the fact that even with modern packaging machines equipped with interfaces, in order to quickly obtain information about productivity, operating time and efficiency for each machine and product, we spend an unacceptable amount of time on issuing an EMU. Everything production processes are slowed down and, accordingly, the volumes of supplied products are reduced.
Even more serious problems are observed during the shipment of products. After the list of products was expanded, for which from January 1, 2018 it is necessary to issue veterinary accompanying documents, which included all goods containing products of animal origin, it is required to issue tens of thousands of EMU.
We keep inventory records, coding products in the warehouse. Our seven applicators that work on the line are built into information system since 2010. All these devices are equipped with interfaces and are integrated with production lines and a warehouse for finished products. Thanks to the devices, the information goes both to the foreman of the shop and to the master of the finished product. In addition, marking sheets are applied to the pallets on the lines. After that, a label is written out on the assembled pallet, all this is registered in the warehouse, and when the products are released, a route is created and an accounting policy is formed. This minimum requirements to send information to Mercury. But even a process that is fully automated in terms of information does not allow us to ship products on time. Indeed, about 20 certificates for production are issued for the input of raw materials - as many as the batch, but then in the warehouses it is required to issue 10,000 EMU. The system processes, according to our estimates, 1% of everything that should be poured into it from January 1, 2018.
As an experiment, we conducted a load test with one of our partners in order to understand not only how our information systems interact with Mercury, but also whether FSIS will be able to provide work with them. As a result, we have found that EMUs require ten times more time for logistical operations at the warehouse for uninterrupted shipments during peak hours when issuing EMU. Now imagine what it's like to ten times increase the time for shipment, which normally takes six hours. According to our estimates, there will be up to 700 trucks in the warehouse, of which two can be sent within two hours, the remaining vehicles will not be able to deliver the products today. We mainly have perishable products that no one will need tomorrow. Of course, we can consider the possibility of cargo insurance if insurers could assess the risks, and we could include them in the price of products labeled "guaranteed - not counterfeit". But then the very principle “I took the milk - processed it and gave out the products” itself is violated. We are well aware that the interest of the buyer, and then the retailer, will decrease in our products if they stop arriving on time. This is about underdelivery. The same problems are not only in the dairy, but also in the meat industry. An enterprise that sells packaged meat, in cooperation with Mercury, was unable to ship it within a day. It's scary to imagine what will happen to the shipment if the internet goes down. We are becoming completely dependent on "Mercury", - the head of the enterprise summed up the above.
There are also many questions related to information security enterprise and maintaining trade secrets. When you yourself want to receive information and use it in the interests of business - this is one thing. But when you convey information about your company and product and do not understand how it will be used, it is completely different. Today, anyone can go to "Mercury" and get almost any information about the company, product, and even that which is a trade secret. The specialist believes that it is technically impossible to track from which farm the milk came from using Mercury.
Milk from suppliers comes to the plant and enters one container and only then is distributed according to tasks. And we cannot say for sure that the milk in the bottle is from this farm. Therefore, the system, as it is now, cannot provide transparency of control “from farm to bottle”.
There are many cases when raw materials come to incoming control with incompletely issued EMU, while there are no regulations in the legislation requiring filling in all points of the certificate from the supplier. If you do not have all the laboratory tests confirming the safety of your product, then processing will not be able to accept it when Mercury is introduced. In addition to the negative points, the manager noted the obvious positive improvements that became possible thanks to the "Mercury": "We have established an EMU connection in the milk receiving department. Inspectors work with EMU and can immediately reconcile with invoices for the supply of raw materials. In electronic form, an act of disagreement is drawn up and the documentation is automatically corrected. And we no longer have problems to match the veterinary certificate with the bill of lading. This positive moment allows us to get away from fines, because if the invoice does not match, all responsibility lies with the processor.” The head also expressed the wish that in the future, when solving veterinary issues, EMUs could play the role of legal documents in work with suppliers. If a question arises in veterinary microbiology, I would like to see EMU as an arbitrator when working with a supplier. The introduction of EMU is only possible for large enterprises with a well-established information system. It will simply be beyond the power of small players, and the enterprises serving them will leave with it, as analysts predict.
According to the specialist, many enterprises of the dairy industry are just now beginning to modernize their information systems and are simultaneously starting to work in Mercury. Representatives of state enterprises come and learn from experience. And they begin to implement software and test it with Mercury. But this is only a small part of the enterprises, for some even software products are not certified and not structured, and they are only now trying to make a module for 1C.
The state bodies that control the introduction of EMU are also not yet ready to answer the questions posed.
“The state is not ready yet. They have no idea what they are facing. We are now trying to implement this at our enterprises. But the initiative should come first of all from the state, - the expert believes. - Even in the test mode, approbation of the system shows that it is simply impossible to work with it in the form it is. And its modernization by January 1, 2018 is technically unrealistic to implement. Talking about a traceability system now, when there is no registration of animals on farms, is useless. Those tasks that are set for the business to implement Mercury are technically impossible to complete in one, two, or three years, ”the specialist summed up the above.
Electronic veterinary certification has been delayed until 2017. However, time will fly by quickly, and many in the dairy industry do not yet know what this, at first glance, progressive innovation can threaten. More on this in our new section In simple words».
What it is?
In Russia, paper veterinary certification is now in effect. In fact, this is just a review of documents and simple check products for safety and suitability for consumption. Rosselkhoznadzor has long wanted to replace such certification with a more modern electronic one. For this, the web application of the GIS "Mercury" will be used. It will be possible to open it directly in the browser and enter all the necessary data about the product in order to receive a certificate.
In conjunction with Mercury, the Argus, Vesta and Cerberus systems will work. Argus is already operational and is being used to issue import permits. "Vesta" is needed to register laboratory tests, and "Cerberus" - to track legally meaningful action.
In theory, this will reduce bureaucracy and simplify the receipt of documents. In addition, you no longer have to fiddle with paper - it will be enough to have a certificate number by which you can check what kind of products are being transported and what their origin is.
Many in the industry have had a similar question. For example, in the EU, certification of raw materials is needed to prevent the introduction of diseases from other countries and the appearance on the market of products hazardous to health. The WTO believes that such a document is needed simply to protect against infections. But in Russia it is not written anywhere why it is necessary to obtain such a certificate. There is also no list of unreliable suppliers, regions where there are now epidemics of cattle. In fact, certification is a purely bureaucratic procedure.
In world practice, there are examples of countries where you can really work without certification. Moreover, there is no mandatory veterinary certification for dairy products in any country in the world, including the member countries of the Customs Union (which, apart from Russia, includes Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus). This puts Russian processors in less favorable conditions, according to Russian dairymen.
Take for example the developed countries. In the EU, dairy products do not require veterinary certificates when transported within the Union. Instead, they found a simpler way to ensure the safety of products: information (identification numbers) on the veterinary certification of the production or supplier of raw materials is entered into the shipping documents. If some kind of cattle disease is rampant in the region, then a certificate is needed.
At us issue of the certificate - formality. Research methods are not certified, and with repeated re-issuance of documents, it is not clear which area is safe for cattle diseases. The well-being of the area is confirmed even if the territory is recognized as unfavorable. Therefore, it is possible not to obtain a certificate for a purely bureaucratic reason, and real violations in product quality are less than 1%. For example, in 2013 there were 0.7%. This does not mean that all manufacturers are so responsible, but simply formal checks.
In order to get a certificate, you need to "log in" to the system. By "input" for "Mercury" they mean entering the necessary data about the batch, if these are products made in Russia. To get a certificate for imported goods, you need to have a veterinary certificate issued in the country of origin. The system not only collects information, but also tracks it so that each new certificate is issued only upon confirmation of all previously entered data. That is, it will not be easy to deceive the system. If someone finds an error in issuing a certificate, it can be instantly revoked remotely.
Mercury has subsystems. The main ones for dairymen are "Temporary storage warehouse" and "State veterinary expertise". The first is needed for certification of imported goods, and the second - for accompanying documents for goods moving within the country.
In words, everything is beautiful and modern, but "Mercury" is scolded for the fact that the system is still "raw". For example, there are some important modules missing to make necessary information for raw materials and products. Therefore, during the launch of the pilot project, it was not possible to fully determine whether the integration of the system and existing dairies is possible, and in what time frame this can be done. And the National Union of Milk Producers (Soyuzmoloko) reported that the current level of equipment in the dairy industry is extremely low automated systems. Regional retail chains have the same problem, not to mention unorganized trade.
Yes, the Ministry of Agriculture issued order No. 281 on July 17, 2014. It is called “On approval of the rules for organizing work on the preparation of veterinary accompanying documents and the procedure for issuing veterinary accompanying documents in electronic form.”
It is worth noting that the content of this document is very different from the version that went through public discussion with the business community, as well as the regulatory impact assessment procedure. During the discussion, business representatives made many suggestions that could remove emerging questions and concerns.
Until now, veterinary certificates in the dairy industry were obtained only for raw materials. Processors did not need this document. However, with the introduction of electronic certification, it was assumed that such a document would also need to be obtained for a batch of dairy products. This will apply to milk, and cheese, and cottage cheese, and powdered milk with butter. In this case, the functions of Rospotrebnadzor and Rosselkhoznadzor will be duplicated. It is not known how they will resolve the issue of separating their control and supervisory functions.
For processors, this is not only bad, but often impossible. The fact is that in order to obtain a certificate, processors will need to indicate the source of raw materials for each batch. Many processors collect raw milk from several producers. Often they have hundreds of suppliers, and if there is a strong farming movement in the region, then these are hundreds of small farmers or even personal subsidiary farms (PSPs). Many regions are trying to support household plots and farmers, so processors, following the wishes of the regional leadership, collect milk from such producers. Accordingly, it is unprofitable to carry a tank for each of the hundreds of suppliers separately, and already at the stage of collecting raw materials, it is mixed. It turns out that it is impossible to indicate the source of raw milk for each batch. In addition, there are a lot of batches from factories, and even with a small number of suppliers, a large amount of certificates for each batch will have to be collected.
Let's take a truck of 20 tons as an example. These are about 130 large lots, and each needs a separate certificate. For delivery around the city, three-ton trucks are used, in which there are 30 batches. Finally, to obtain a certificate, you must specify where the goods will be sold. This is also not always known to the processor.
This is explained by the need to track the movement of all dairy products in the system. Processors respond to this that now it is possible to trace the path of goods by marking, which contains the date and time of production, information about production line, factory address, production batch number and more. The factories also know where the raw materials come from and what they are processed into. A special document obliges them to follow this (clause 12, part 3, article 10 of TR CU 021/2011 “On food safety”). This fully complies with the requirements of the Customs Union and ISO.
Formally - for free. For the sake of this, electronic certification was conceived. But in reality, many processors will have to hire a special person (and large ones - even dozens of people) just to deal with the issuance of these certificates. According to various factories and companies, this can increase the cost of production by 1-1.5%, and sometimes even more. For example, there are calculations for a plant with a processing capacity of 200 tons per day. In a year, it will take him almost 10 million rubles to introduce electronic certification, which will increase the cost of production by 5%.
If everything was done on paper, the costs would be even higher. In the case of veterinary certification for processors "the old fashioned way" will need more than 25 thousand people, because each major processor will have to issue more than 6 million certificates annually. This will cost a large processor 8 billion rubles, which will increase the cost by about 7%. The costs of the entire dairy industry in connection with the implementation of veterinary certification for paper media can be estimated at 30 billion rubles.
Before the deployment of the electronic certification system, it was "run in" on milk producers. Processors had to go through pilot projects at two plants, but they were curtailed by the Ministry of Agriculture. It is known that the difficulties in working with electronic certification for processing were reflected in the numerous appeals of processors to all instances. So yes, all the difficulties were reported to the officials.
Perhaps never. The introduction of electronic veterinary certification in practice has been postponed until 2018. But this does not mean that processors will eventually have to deal with paperwork. Minister Agriculture Alexander Tkachev has already hinted that processors may be exempted from the need to obtain such a document. “I want to say objectively and honestly, there is no decision yet, but the decision will be beneficial primarily for our milk producers,” the minister said. However, he often noted that the very proposal to make veterinary certification mandatory for processors is controversial.
According to independent checks, it is in the dairy industry that most of the falsified products were revealed. Less and less milk is being produced, and the volume of dairy products is not decreasing. So the question arose, maybe the producers of dairy products are "dark". There is already "Plato" for truckers, EGAIS for alcohol, and now there will be "Mercury" for milk. Manufacturers are not prepared to implement the system either morally or financially.
Why is Mercury needed?
Once upon a time, each product passed mandatory certification. Today, certification is a voluntary matter. Rosselkhoznadzor insists on mandatory certification of not only milk producers, but also dairy processors in without fail since 2018. However, this will not be enough to keep left-handed products out of the store shelves, regulators want to track the entire path of the product from the cow to the counter.
The existing measures to combat counterfeit products in the dairy sector do not bring the desired result, so we decided to develop the information system "Mercury" similar to "Platon" and EGAIS.
All milk producers will be digitized
"Mercury" is designed to control the movement of the product from the cow to the point of sale through tracking cargo, transactions and routes of movement within the Customs Union. Each batch of milk is assigned its own barcode, which makes it possible to obtain veterinary information from each package. Moreover, access to such information will be not only for supervisory authorities, but also for buyers through a special application on a mobile phone.
The system will register not only farms, but all points of sale, catering establishments and budget organizations(schools, hospitals, etc.).
Manufacturers are not ready to implement the system
Supervisory authorities are responsible great expectations on "Mercury", believing that it will clear the market of dishonest manufacturers, create fair conditions for competition between enterprises.
Retailers have not yet emerged on the introduction of a new control system. And dairy producers have tensed up and are not mentally prepared for such control. They are primarily concerned about the material side of the issue, how much they will have to pay for participating in this project. However, according to supervisory authorities, those who have something to hide are worried. In their opinion, the manufacturers themselves, in order to reduce the cost of production, resort to illegal actions:
accept raw milk without accompanying documents;
supply products with an expired shelf life;
sell unlabeled products;
The composition of the product does not match the label (most often, milk fat is replaced with vegetable fat without indicating this in the composition).
Dairy producers are confident that it is not only a matter of fighting falsification, the introduction of a new system will relieve the tension associated with customer complaints, high costs for laboratory testing of samples during inspections, and most importantly, the tax base suffers.
New system, new problems
Everyone remembers the difficulties that arose during the implementation of Plato, with the Unified State Automated Information System, everything is still not going smoothly. Similar is expected with the introduction of "Mercury". In addition to acquiring necessary equipment for marking and reading, training of employees to work with the system will be required, failures, problems with deliveries and returns, a drop in sales are possible.
"Mercury" will control not only the dairy sector, in the near future other industries will be connected to the system:
Meat (including the meat of wild animals from hunting trophies),
fish,
· eggs.
Whether Mercury will become a panacea for counterfeiting on the market, time will tell, but it will definitely add problems and headaches to manufacturers.