Black Sea fish meets hygienic norms - Russian consumer protection watchdog

MOSCOW. Jan 31 (Interfax) - Specialists of the Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) have conducted over 800 tests of fish harvested in the Black Sea but found no inconsistences with hygienic norms, the service said in a statement on Friday.

"Rospotrebnadzor continues to exercise enhanced control over the safety of fish harvested in the Black Sea, using its laboratories in Anapa and Yalta. As of now, 866 tests have been conducted, and no inconsistences with hygienic norms have been found," the statement said.

Rospotrebnadzor specialists have made over 2,200 tests of water from drinking water intakes and mains, 5,700 tests of air, 850 tests of seawater, and 1,600 tests of soil, it said.

On December 15, Volgoneft 212 and Volgoneft 239 tankers carrying fuel oil wrecked in the Kerch Strait, causing an oil leak. The Russian Transport Ministry said that four petroleum product tanks were damaged, and about 2,400 tonnes of fuel oil spilled into the sea.

The Krasnodar Territory, Crimea and Sevastopol declared a regional emergency, and a federal emergency is also in effect.