Regulation · Route into Russia / EAEU
NOVEL · Rospotrebnadzor / EAEU
Information, not legal advice — confirm the procedure for your product.
Legal basis
TR CU 021/2011: novel foods (not previously consumed in the EAEU, incl. from microorganisms, fungi, algae) need state registration; no specific route for cultivated meat
Precision-fermentation proteins, mycoprotein, cultivated meat.
Official-source check
- Regulator
- Rospotrebnadzor (Federal Service for Surveillance of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare)
- Legal basis
- TR CU 021/2011 On Food Safety (Технический регламент Таможенного союза "О безопасности пищевой продукции")
- Typical time
- The provided sources do not specify a precise duration for novel food registration, though they note that registration processes for other regulated products should be initiated well in advance.
- Corrections
- The draft correctly identifies the regulatory framework for novel foods under TR CU 021/2011. However, it is important to clarify that while the regulation defines novel food products, the specific administrative procedures for registering cultivated meat as a novel food are not explicitly detailed as a separate, fully operational commercial route in the provided sources, making the draft's note on cultivated meat's approval status accurate in its caution.
| TR CU 021/2011 defines novel food products as those not previously used for human consumption in the EAEU, including those with modified molecular structures or derived from microorganisms, fungi, algae, plants, or animals. “пищевая продукция нового вида - пищевая продукция (в том числе пищевые добавки и ароматизаторы), ранее не использовавшаяся человеком в пищу на таможенной территории Таможенного союза, а именно: с новой или преднамеренно измененной первичной молекулярной структурой; состоящая или выделенная из …” | gbusvc.ru |
| Rospotrebnadzor is the competent authority responsible for food safety and state registration of specialized and novel food products in Russia. “The Federal Service for Surveillance of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare of the Government of the Russian Federation (known as Rospotrebnadzor) is responsible for food safety.” | agriexchange.apeda.gov.in |
| State registration is required for novel food products imported into the EAEU for the first time. “The key EAEU document regulating state registration of certain food products is currently the CU Technical Regulation on Food Safety, which establishes the following list of products that are subject to state registration: ... Novel food products.” | agriexchange.apeda.gov.in |
Sources
https://gbusvc.ru/wp-content/uploads/Reglament-ot-09_12_2011-N-0212011-TR-TS-0212011-Tehnicheskiy-reglament-Tamozhennogo-soyuza-O..._Tekst.pdf
https://agriexchange.apeda.gov.in/ImportRegulations/FoodandAgriculturalImportRegulationsandStandardsCountryReportMoscowRussianFederation12312019.pdf
https://agriexchange.apeda.gov.in/ImportRegulations/FoodandAgriculturalImportRegulationsandStandardsCountryReportMoscowRussianFederation12312019.pdf