There may be contaminated lemons and oranges in Hungarian stores

Under the current Community provisions (ie EU Commission Implementing Regulation 2021/2246), citrus fruits are already subject to special controls upon entry into the EU, which means that fewer objectionable goods may arrive in the EU, read Nébih's website. In the period from November to April, ie as long as Hungarian customers consume more citrus fruits in the absence of domestic seasonal fruits, Nébih and the territorially competent government agencies monitor the pesticide content of citrus fruits more closely. The focus is primarily on examining the supply of imported goods at border crossings, as well as the supply of wholesale markets and logistics centers, so that defective fruit batches can no longer be passed on to the shelves of shops serving the population or to market stalls. Despite careful official control, experts have recently found that fruit (such as lemon, grapefruit, orange, mandarin, clementine) from outside the European Union, mainly from Turkey, has arrived ...