Since the beginning of the year, about 14 tonnes of fruit and vegetables that fell under the Russian food embargo have been destroyed in the Tyumen Region.
Due to the increasing number of violations, the Office of the Rosselkhoznadzor for the Tyumen region, YaNAO and the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District are calling on entrepreneurs to stop importing products banned in Russia by the presidential decree of 7 August 2014.
Such products may become a threat to the quarantine phytosanitary conditions of both the region and the country as a whole, since along with fruit and vegetables supplied from other countries there is a high probability of penetration by quarantine objects which may be dangerous for crops, as Vsluh.ru learned from the press service of the Supervisory authority.
Of the 14 tonnes destroyed by the Tyumen region (including autonomous regions), the most common products have been apples, pears, Chinese cabbage and leeks from Poland.
The head of the Rosselkhoznadzor, Sergei Dankvert, also noted that the destruction of banned products "is the only way to stop the supply of such goods to our country," stressing that such methods of food destruction are not only applied in Russia.
Source: vsluh.ru
