MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia may limit food transit from Belarus and Ukraine to Kazakhstan because of attempts by the countries to supply banned food to Russia, the head of Russia's veterinary and phytosanitary service (VPSS) was quoted as saying on Thursday.
In early August, Russia banned imports of fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry, fish, milk and dairy from the European Union and some other countries worth about $9 billion in retaliation for Western sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine.
"We will be talking about stopping the transit to Kazakhstan through the borders of Belarus and Ukraine and allowing it only via our checkpoints," Sergei Dankvert was quoted as saying by RIA news agency.
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan have a free trade zone as part of their customs union and Minsk has promised to prevent banned foods from being shipped onward to Russia.
Moscow's VPSS recently reported a case in which 8,000 tonnes of meat, falsely labelled as coming from Brazil and destined for Kazakhstan, had been delivered to Russia via Belarus, Dankvert said.
The service managed to find about 300 tonnes of this meat, while 7,500 tonnes "got lost in Russia", he added.
Russia's veterinary service also may ban pork imports from Belarus due to suspected outbreaks of African Swine Fever, the service said. It plans to discuss this question at a meeting with the Belarussian agriculture ministry on Thursday.
(Reporting by Polina Devitt; Editing by Elizabeth Piper)
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