"If there is no livestock identification, then there is the whole cycle traceability of products, and this is what I pay attention all international inspectors who come to check our system to ensure the safety of products intended for export," - said Dankvert at the meeting of the Board on agricultural matters at the Federation Council on Tuesday in Moscow.

"We have to find answers to simple questions asked by the inspectors. For example - why do we have livestock identification? Well, I can't tell the truth that we have the Ministry of economic development two and a half years does not negotiate this issue," he said.

However, he said that this system operates in most countries that are major exporters of livestock products.

"It is our neighbors in Kazakhstan and Belarus", - he added.

"Of course, we get out of the situation, try to answer, but at the end of almost all inspections, the inspectors make a point about the fact that our system of traceability, unequal, and depends on export", - said the head of Rosselkhoznadzor.

According to him, the confusion among foreign inspectors is the fact that about the upcoming test you must inform the verifier. It is also one of the most frequent comments in the reports on inspections.

Dankvert said that last year in Russia there were 17 inspections, during which foreign experts have studied the system of ensuring food safety, including on the companies that have announced their intention to export their products. This year the number of inspections, according to him, will increase up to 20.

As reported, the agriculture Ministry has prepared amendments to the law On veterinary medicine which include the introduction of a marking and registration of animals and the granting to public authorities of the regions the authority to conduct this work. As reported in the explanatory Memorandum, the marking and registration of animals is aimed at ensuring the traceability of animals and animal products "from farm to fork".

"Marking is an attachment to the body of the animal, drawing on the body of the animal, anchoring on the animal's body or the introduction into the body of the animal visual or mixed (a combination of visual and electronic) means of identification", - stated in the document.

Marking of animals will be the owners own expense or with the involvement of experts. Were identified and the wholesale cost of the tags and services for their establishment. Will be individually marked cattle, horses, reindeer, sheep and goats. Breeding swine will be marked individually, commodity - group method.