Fruit growers in Brazil returned to exporting to Spain without restrictions

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Spain

Brazil

Published Jul 24, 2021

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Brazilian producers and exporters of mango and lemon changed the adjuvants of carnauba wax used to prolong the life of the fruit and returned to ship their cargoes to the Port of Algeciras, in Spain, without restrictions. The information was given to Globo Rural by Jorge Luis de Souza, project manager at the Brazilian Association of Fruit and Derivative Exporters (Abrafrutas). Mango is the most exported fruit in Brazil.

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In the first half of this year, there were more than 79 thousand tons (Photo: Pexels/Creative Commons) The organization had been silent since the second half of June, when authorities in Algeciras, the main Mediterranean port, blocked the entry of hundreds of containers of fruit from Brazil and other countries such as Costa Rica, Chile, Colombia and Vietnam, alleging use of unauthorized additives in the coating wax. Part of the cargo was diverted to other ports such as Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, and part was incinerated for having lost its quality while a solution was discussed. “We were taken by surprise. Those were days of a lot of confusion at the port. It was a strange interpretation by the Spanish health authorities based on the regulation of the European Union, which was not followed by any other country. Not even the importers knew what was going on. We questioned the reasons but got no response. So, we replaced the wax, which is a cheap product – R$ 10 is enough to ...

Source: Agroinforme