Over 11 tons of infected bell peppers arrived in the port of Saint Petersburg from Morocco, reported the press service of Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance for Saint Petersburg, Leningrand and Pskov regions.
“In order to prevent the possible spread of the quarantine objects on the territory of the Russian Federation, in accordance with the product owner’s decision, the vegetables will be disinfected”, reads the report.
The specialists have established that the bell peppers were infected with a dangerous quarantine crop pest, western flower thrips. After disinfection, the bell peppers were allowed into the country.
Source: spbdnevnik.ru