Russia: In the Orenburg region, a dangerous quarantine object was detected in apricots from Uzbekistan

Published 2023년 6월 20일

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Since the beginning of 2023, the Office of the Rosselkhoznadzor for the Orenburg Region in Russia has intercepted over one cargo with quarantine pests. On June 14, 2023, they found an eastern codling moth in a consignment of fresh apricots from Uzbekistan, leading to the seizure of the shipment and administrative action against those responsible. Since the start of the year, 21 cases of quarantine pests have been detected in imported products, exceeding 200 tons in total. The eastern codling moth, an pest originally from East Asia that can destroy up to 100% of crop, is one of six types of quarantine objects found.

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Since the beginning of 2023, employees of the Office of the Rosselkhoznadzor for the Orenburg Region have neutralized more than one import cargo with phytopathogenic objects. On June 14, 2023, officials of the Office of the Rosselkhoznadzor for the Orenburg region in the temporary storage warehouse "Service Product" during the quarantine phytosanitary control of a batch of fresh apricots (21.13 tons) from Uzbekistan identified a quarantine pest that is limitedly distributed on the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union - eastern codling moth (Grapholita molesta). The presence of a quarantine object in a viable state was confirmed by a laboratory examination conducted by specialists from the Orenburg Reference Center of Rosselkhoznadzor. In accordance with the requirements of the quarantine legislation, the import of products was prohibited, the guilty persons were brought to administrative responsibility in accordance with Article 10.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of ...

Source: Agroxxi