OREANDA-NEWS Against the background of the caviar labeling that started in April, 71 manufacturers of this type of product were legalized in Russia. Izvestia writes about this with reference to the representatives of the CRPT (the operator of the state marking system "Honest Sign") who recalculated them.

The deputy General Director of the organization, Revaz Yusupov, noted that in the Russian Federation "noticeable successes in whitewashing the industry are already visible." According to him, it was possible to legalize more than eight percent of the market that had not previously reported their activities — initially it was about 861 official caviar producers in Russia. The products of such manufacturers are called safe and proven in the CRPT.

In September, red caviar rose in price in Russia by 12.6 percent. Against this background, the Ministry of Agriculture promised to analyze the need to restrict exports, and some journalists attributed the sharp rise in prices to the activities of poachers in the Primorsky Territory, which Rosrybolovstvo called inadequate.

The article notes that since the beginning of the year, the production of natural red caviar in Russia has almost tripled — from 29 to 10 thousand tons, against which its cost has already increased by a quarter, and by the New Year it may add another 10 percent.