This opinion was expressed by RNS the General Director of five consulting Maria Petrova Petrova. "Another thing, if the ban lasts longer (than a month and a half. - RNS). In this situation, the consequences will be severe — the market expects at least a 40% increase in prices of dairy products, falling demand and a new wave of falsification as a result of attempts of manufacturers to create affordable ersatz product," she said, noting that, in her opinion, "this will not happen or the ban will not last long, or, more likely, the Rosselkhoznadzor in the nearest future already will limit restrictive measures a list of specific plants, leaving import at the level that the Russian demand for milk has increased and consumers were not affected".

Petrov stressed that the ban was imposed not on final products and raw materials. "The volume of deliveries of the Belarus dried milk in 2017 amounted to more than 100 thousand tons, which corresponds to approximately 80% of total imports of this product."

Earlier today the Rosselkhoznadzor informed that introduces a temporary ban on the import into Russia of a number of dairy products from Belarus. Restrictions on the import of effective from 26 February. We are talking about banning the import of milk and cream pasteurized, sterilized and ultrapasteurization bulk, dry milk and cream, concentrated, canned and condensed, serum lactic liquid, concentrated, dry, whey concentrate and milk protein.

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