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Rosselkhoznadzor informs that Latvia's fish smoking technologies have improved, but that experts still need a few more weeks for their final conclusions.

Rosselkhoznadzor points out that Baltic fish products will most likely be able to return to the Russian market sometime after the new year.

As reported, inspectors from Rosselkhoznadzor in July completed their visit to Latvia to inspect Latvian fish canneries and producers of animal fodder certified for exports to Russia.

According to the information from the Latvian Food and Veterinary Service, a group of Russian inspectors conducted inspections at five Latvian fish canneries - Karavela, Bankis, Unda, Sabiedriba IMS and Gamma A - to check their compliance with the requirements of the Eurasian Economic Union member states, including Russia.

The other group of Russian inspectors visited Riagro and Rigas Kombinetas Lopbaribas Rupnica which make animal fodder.

The inspectors have since return to Russia to summarize their findings and produce the final report.

Latvian officials hope that, should the Rosselkhoznadzor report be positive, talks may be reopened about resuming export of Latvian fish products to Russia.

After the previous inspection of Latvian fish canneries in May last year, Rosselkhoznadzor banned imports of fish products from Latvia, citing breaches of veterinary and sanitary standards.

On June 4, 2015, Rosselkhoznadzor banned imports of fish products from Latvia and Estonia, citing breaches of veterinary and sanitary standards.