The Use of Foreign Fats in Moldovan Milk and Dairy Products will be Prohibited

The marketed names of milk and dairy, their characteristic features and quality standards, as well as requirements for packaging, labeling and transport have been approved by the Government of the Republic of Moldova. The requirements cover both domestic and imported products. Therefore, only the natural, additive-free product may be called milk, and only the product that hasn’t undergone heat treatment over 40 degrees Celsius or a treatment with equivalent effect may be called raw milk. The presence of foreign fats in milk and dairy products is prohibited.

Whole milk is heat-treated milk with a fat content of at least 3.5%. Skimmed milk is milk whose fat content has been reduced to no more than 0.5%. Dairy products are products derived from milk, with addition of certain substances necessary for their manufacture, provided that these substances are not used to replace any milk constituent. Changing the fat content by adding whole milk, semi-skimmed or skimmed milk must be indicated on the labels.

If water is added to dried or concentrated milk products, they shall be considered reconstituted milk products. In this case the denomination “reconstituted” or “recombined” shall be indicated on the packaging. For example, “recombined sour cream”, “reconstituted pasteurized milk”, etc.

The new standards will be implemented six months after publishing in Monitorul Oficial.

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