Economics

​ROSSELHOZNADZOR CALLED ON ANSA TO STOP CERTIFYING PLUMS FROM TWO RAIONS OF MOLDOVA

28 november, 2018

The RosSelhozNadzor [Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance] urged the Moldovan National Food Safety Agency (ANSA) to stop issuing phytosanitary certificates for a group of quarantine products - fresh apricots, cherry, peaches, nectarines, plums and blackthorn - of Moldovan origin from Cantemir and Ialoveni raions.

The Russian sanitary agency explained this demand with the increasingly frequent cases of identifying of brown rot in Moldovan plums, as well as the fact that the Moldovan side cannot officially confirm the status of zones, free from this quarantine objects.

"The cessation of certifying the quarantine products, produced in these raions of Moldova, will allow avoiding the introduction of restrictive measures in relation to plant goods, which come from the entire territory of Moldova", the RosSelhozNadzor stressed.

Commenting on the situation, ANSA Director Gheorghe Gaberi said that RosSelhozNadzor complaints will be carefully studied and in case these are confirmed, corresponding measures will be adopted.

At the same time, he said that after the introduction of the practice of issuing phytosanitary certificates to exporters on the basis of results of laboratory expertise for the brown rot, not a single case of returning the goods due to the identified quarantine pest was registered.

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