About 20 tonnes of Moldovan apples were sent back from Russia following checks at the border crossing point “Krupetskii” in Kursk region. The apples were to be delivered to a plant in Bryansk, IPN reports.
According to a press release placed on the website of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of Russia, the Oriental fruit moth was detected in the consignment.
Contacted earlier by IPN after several consignments of Moldovans plums were returned from Russia, director general of the National Food Safety Agency Gheorghe Gaberi said it is normal for some of the fruits to contain pests. The consignments of plums that were returned from Russia until now because they contained the Oriental fruit moth, which is a quarantine object on the territory of this state, have been examined in Moldova and no irregularities were identified in them.
“According to international norms, if a pest is found in a fruit, fumigation is performed to eliminate the pest. Not all the checkpoints in Russia have such installations and the goods are thus sent back,” stated Gheorghe Gaberi.
