Almost 2,000 privately exported containers are stuck due to the suspension of testing.

Over the past 10 days, nearly 2,000 containers of Dak Lak pepper have been stuck at ports and warehouses due to a temporary suspension by the testing laboratories, putting businesses at risk of losses amounting to hundreds of billions of VND. Speaking to VnExpress, Mr. Le Anh Trung, President of the Dak Lak Pepper Association, said that the congestion began on October 11, when the testing laboratories serving the chemical residue inspection for export pepper stopped accepting samples and did not return results for batches sent earlier. This caused businesses to be unable to complete the procedure for issuing safety certificates, a mandatory condition for export, forcing them to stop purchasing. Mr. Trung said that currently, there are very few facilities capable of testing both gold and cadmium simultaneously, which are the two mandatory criteria. Most can only do one of the two. This shortage has caused interruptions in testing, failing to meet the pace during the peak harvest ...