Youngevity International, Inc. a global direct marketer of nutritional and lifestyle products and also a vertically-integrated producer of gourmet coffees for the commercial, retail and direct sales channels, announced the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation has approved its core product line for distribution across Russia.
LLC Youngevity Russia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Youngevity, was formed on July 4, 2014 and the Company officially opened an office in Moscow in November of last year. LLC Youngevity Russia has been working since its inception, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, to gain the necessary product approvals to properly enter the Russian market.
Initially, product approvals happened relatively quickly, but the significant amount of ingredients present in Youngevity’s core 90 for Life Product Line took longer than anticipated to gain approval. This week