Turkiye: Agricultural export leaders work together with the EU for food safety in spices

Aegean Furniture Paper and Forest Products Exporters' Association and Aegean Cereals, Pulses, Oilseeds and Products Exporters' Association exchanged views on the spice industry within the scope of EU harmonization studies with the European Commission General Directorate of Health and Food Safety and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry officials from Ankara. Spice exporters under the umbrella of the Aegean Exporters' Associations are within the Aegean Furniture, Paper and Forest Products Exporters' Association and the Aegean Cereals, Pulses and Oilseeds Exporters' Association. The European Union is a vital export market for us. Muhammet Öztürk, President of the Aegean Grains, Pulses, Oilseeds and Products Exporters' Association, reminded that as EİB, they have started an intensive work process on sustainability, which constitutes an important agenda in terms of better preparing the sectors for the responsibilities of the EU Green Deal, since 2019. “The European Union is a ...