Europe will audit Argentine citrus farms

The Minister of Productive Development of Tucumán, Álvaro Simón Padrós, received the director of SENASA's NOA SOUTH Regional Center, José Luque. "The meeting was to prepare for the next audit that the European Union will carry out during the month of March in the citrus farms that decide to export fresh lemons to the markets of the old continent," explained the officials and added that "we coordinate the work of the national public bodies and provincial linked to citrus production. It should be noted that these audits are part of the opening of the European market to Argentine citrus, after the suspension of Argentine lemon exports to the European Union in July 2020 due to the large number of inspections that detected black spot on lemons. In the month of August of the same year, the European Union decreed a total ban on importing citrus from Argentina due to the high number of shipments in which it had detected citrus black spot (Citrus Black Spot, CBS). Black spot is caused by ...