A meeting of the country's main standardizers for fish products was held at the Volga-Caspian branch of VNIRO
25 October 2024

A meeting of the country's main standardizers for fish products was held at the Volga-Caspian branch of VNIRO

From October 21 to 25, the annual in-person meeting of the interstate technical committee for standardization “Fish products: food, feed, technical and packaging” (MTK/TK 300) was held in Astrakhan at the Volga-Caspian branch of the State Research Center of the Russian Federation “All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography” (VNIRO), chaired by VNIRO Deputy Director for Research Andrey Mezhanov.
 
The meeting was attended by representatives of VNIRO, Rosstandart, Rospotrebnadzor, the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, industry unions, and fish processing enterprises.
 
The participants of the event reviewed documents relevant to the fishing industry, including:
 
GOST “Frozen fish. Technical conditions" (Development of a unified interstate standard to replace GOST 32366–2013, GOST 17660–97, GOST 32910–2014 and GOST R 51493–99);
GOST "Fish food products. Determination of histamine content by ion-pair high-performance liquid chromatography with spectrophotometric detection" (Development for the first time based on a certified method for determining histamine);
GOST 7144– "Canned smoked fish in oil. Technical conditions" (Revision of GOST 7144–2006);
GOST 7368– "Pressed sturgeon caviar. Technical conditions" (Revision of GOST 7368–2013).
Decisions were made on the issues considered, and the minutes of the meeting were drawn up.
 
Standardization in the fishing industry has a rich history. National Technical Committee 300 "Fish products, food, feed, technical and packaging" was created in 1991 on the basis of VNIRO by the order of the USSR State Committee for Product Quality Management and Standards and the USSR Ministry of Fisheries. Subsequently, TC 300 was reorganized into an interstate technical committee for standardization and began to conduct international activities.
 
In 2024, the technical committee team became a laureate of the public award "Standardizer of the Year-2024" in the nomination "For practical contribution to the development of standards of great economic and social importance".
 
Press service of VNIRO