Ban on tomato paste and millet grain from Ukraine. Inspectors found mold and live pests

Published 2024년 3월 27일

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In Poland, the Agricultural and Food Quality Inspection (IJHAR-S) has recently implemented a ban on several food products due to safety and labeling issues. This includes a variety of items such as tomato paste from Ukraine containing mold, improperly labeled margarine, contaminated Ukrainian horsetail, incorrectly marked dried salted blue whiting from China, and millet grain from Ukraine infested with pests. Additionally, roasted coffee beans from Ukraine were seized for incorrect labeling. These measures are part of Poland's rigorous 24-hour border control efforts to ensure that agri-food products, especially those from Ukraine, adhere to commercial quality standards.

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In recent days, further food products have been banned from being placed on the market in Poland by inspectors from the Agricultural and Food Quality Inspection (IJHAR-S). The Poznań branch of this inspection issued a decision banning the placing on the market in Poland of a batch of 19,186 kg of tomato paste imported from Ukraine due to the presence of mold hyphae in the product. This ban also covered a batch of 12,000 kg of margarine from Ukraine due to incorrect labeling (product name). Moreover, two decisions of Poznań inspectors seized a total of 10,000 kg of Ukrainian horsetail. In this case, it was about the content of organic impurities and the presence of plastic fragments. The IJHAR-S branch in Gdańsk issued a decision to ban the placing on the market of 4 batches of fish products (dried salted blue whiting) with a total weight of 4,600 kg, imported from China. This was a consequence of incorrect marking. However, Lublin inspectors made two decisions to ban the placing ...

Source: AgroPolska