"The content of oil products in seawater samples does not exceed the maximum permissible concentration," the ministry's press service said.
The department noted that all samples meet sanitary requirements.
Earlier, the chief researcher of the Laboratory of Experimental Ocean Physics of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Andrei Kostyanoy, in an interview with Gazeta.Ru, commented on the situation with the oil spill near Novorossiysk.
On August 8, it was reported that outside the coastal zone in the Black Sea near Novorossiysk, crude oil was released from the Greek tanker Minerva Symphony.
Rosprirodnadzor was instructed to assess the scale of the oil spill near Novorossiysk.