Ministerial Decree No. 1583 regarding import of products of animal origin. Country/Territory Moldova, Republic of Document type Regulation Date 2003 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Food & nutrition Keyword Meat International trade Food quality control/food safety Geographical area CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, Landlocked Developing Nations Abstract The Government, for the purpose of improving food quality control and food safety of some products of animal origin with a view of ensuring protection of public health, decrees to establish that from 1 January 2004 import of the aforesaid products shall be authorized exclusively for industrial processing for the production of meat and meat-based products. Annex contains the full list of products of animal origin subject to this import restriction. Full text Russian Website www.cont.md