The six regions in Russia affected by the ban are Novosibirsk, Amur, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk and Altai.
The GAQSIQ is a ministerial administrative agency directly under the State Council of the People’s Republic of China in charge of national quality, metrology, entry-exit commodity inspection, entry-exit health quarantine, entry-exit animal and plant quarantine, import-export food safety, certification and accreditation, standardization, as well as administrative law-enforcement.