Interprofessional denounces the serious loss of credit of EU for its passivity with safety of Turkish citrus fruits

Published 2021년 11월 4일

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The Interprofesional Citrícola Española (Intercitrus) has expressed concern over the EU's inaction regarding repeated health alerts on Turkish citrus imports, leading to an alarming loss of credit in food safety. According to RASFF data, there has been a significant increase in non-compliance, with 181 notifications from January to October 27, compared to 2019 and 2020 levels. The majority of these alerts are due to the presence of unauthorized pesticides, especially chlorpyrifos and methyl-chlorpyrifos, which have been banned in the EU but are still allowed in Turkey and Egypt. Despite the EU increasing inspection rates, Intercitrus argues that the current procedure allows 80% of imports to bypass health safety controls, putting European consumers at risk. The situation is contrasted with the stricter standards applied to Spanish exports and the EU's double standard on reducing phytosanitary product use but allowing their production and export.

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The Interprofesional Citrícola Española (Intercitrus) denounces "the alarming loss of credit" in terms of food safety that the European Union (EU) is suffering due to its "passivity" in the face of repeated health alerts regarding Turkish citrus imports. This is how the president of Intercitrus, Inmaculada Sanfeliu, describes what has been happening this year with the official figures from RASFF, the EU's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed, which accredits unprecedented levels of non-compliance in this matter. Indeed, from January to October 27, the citrus fruit of Turkey accumulated 181 notifications, 16.4 times more than those registered in all of 2019 (11) and much more than double those of 2020 (75). In all cases these are consignments in which the presence of pesticides was accredited above the Maximum Residue Limit (MRL) and / or in which other pesticides not authorized by the EU were detected due to their toxicity to man and / or or environmental impact. Turkey and Egypt ...

Source: Agroinformacion