date:Aug 13, 2014
First Minister Alex Salmond has chaired a meeting of the Scottish Government Resilience Committee (SGoRR) to discuss the impact of the immediate Russian trade embargo on food imports from the West.
The ban on food products including fish and seafood, beef, pork, poultry, cured meats, sausages, milk and dairy products and fruit and vegetables came into effect last week. Scotland currently exports around 45m of food and drink to Russia annually. The Scottish mackerel industry is expected to be mo