In Russia, a ban on returning to the manufacturer of unsold bread will be introduced from June 1

In Russia, on June 1, retailers plan to stop the return of unsold bread to suppliers.

This was reported in the letters of the chairman of the Presidium of the Association of Retailers (ACORT) Ilya Lomakin-Rumyantsev to retailers and the Russian Bakers Union.

Lomakin-Rumyantsev asked all members of ACORT to address the suppliers of grain products, interested in the rejection of the existing model of distribution of production risks, and propose to make appropriate changes to the contracts in May.

The president of the Russian Union of Bakers Valery Cheshinsky explained that the networks return bread to the suppliers with expiring or expired. According to him, the average shelf life of bread is three days. To buy products to network partners is at the sale price. Then producers resell bread to individual entrepreneurs six to seven times cheaper than its original cost. Such a product goes to feed cattle.

According to the union, in 2011, sold 11 million tons of bakery products. This is up to 30% of the initially delivered bread, Izvestia writes.

As the Internet portal "Kuban 24" wrote, in Rospotrebnadzor in April, they supported the introduction at the legislative level of a ban on the return of unsold bread and products with expired shelf life to the manufacturer.