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Federal Law of 27 October 2008 № 178-FL “Technical Regulation

on Fruit and Vegetable Juice Products” was adopted in

Russia

Came into force on 29 April 2009

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Objects of the Technical Regulation

Finished commodity:1) Juice:

- Direct Juice - Freshly Squeezed Juice - Reconstituted Juice- Concentrated Juice - Water Extracted Juice

2) Fruit and/or Vegetable Nectar 3) Fruit and/or Vegetable Juice Drink4) Mors 5) Concentrated Mors

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Objects of the Technical RegulationTerms for Raw Materials used in the manufacture of Juice Products 6) Fruit and/or Vegetable Puree 7)Concentrated Fruit and/or Vegetable Puree 8) Natural Aroma-forming Substances9) Concentrated Natural Aroma-forming Substances10) Cells of Citrus Fruit 11) Fruit and/or Vegetable Pulp

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Objects of the Technical Regulation

12) Fruit and/or Vegetable Juice Products for Baby Food

13) Fortified Fruit and/or Vegetable Juice Products

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Groups of Requirements

1) Juice Products Safety Requirements

2) Ingredients and Food Additives Requirements

3) Labelling Requirements

4) Production Process, Storage and Selling Requirements

5) Order of Conformance Evaluation Procedure

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Juice Products Safety Requirements

Annex 1 Juice Products Safety Requirements

Annex 2 List of Fruits and Vegetables

Annex 3 List of Food Additives and Processing Aids

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Labelling of Juice Products

- Juice Products in consumer package should comply with the requirements established in Article 10 of the Federal Law of Russian Federation of 7 February 1992 №2300-1 “On protection of consumers” and Article 11 of the Federal Law of 27 October 2009 №178-FL which determines special claims for consumer package labelling

- Labelling of additional information about the product – certain indications of juice products for children or fortified products, etc.

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Ways of Conformance Evaluation Procedure of Juice Products

1) Confirmation of Products’ compliance to the requirements established by the given Technical Regulation;

2) State Registration of individual kinds of juice products;

3) State Control (Supervision) over maintenance of requirements for juice products established by the Technical Regulation and connected with them processes of production, storage, transportation and selling.

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Recommendations on forming of information for consumers

about fruit and/or vegetable juice products

Were worked out by Russian Union of Juice Producers together with Federal Service on Supervision in the Sphere of Consumers Rights Defense and Human Well-Being

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In pursuance of the Federal Law of 27 October 2009 №178-FL were adopted following Regulations of Government

of Russian Federation:

- №369 of 29/04/2009 “On approval of the list of juice products to be a subject to compulsory compliance confirmation being placed to customs”

- №370 of 29/04/2009 “ On amendments into Governmental Regulation № 1013 of 13.08.1997”

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Regulations of Government of Russian Federation :

- № 420 of 18/05/2009 “On approval of the list of rules and methods of research”

- № 620-R of 19/05/2009 “On approval of the list of national standards containing rules and methods of research”