Many Vietnamese agricultural and aquatic products are warned when exporting to the EU

Published 2021년 10월 19일

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Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade has issued recalls for agricultural products with excessive agrochemical residue levels, exceeding EU regulations. An incident involved a batch of fragrant rice being recalled in Belgium. Other harmful substances like chlorpyrifos ethyl, profenofos, sulphites, nitrofurans, propargite, and fenobucarb were also detected in Vietnamese exports to the EU. The Ministry is taking steps to enhance quarantine measures and has advised exporters to abide by the importing country's regulations to avoid product revocation and damage to corporate reputation.
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The National Office of Notification and Inquiry on Sanitation, Epidemiology and Quarantine of Vietnam (SPS Vietnam Office), said that it had just received 2 official dispatches from the Ministry of Industry and Trade on the export of agricultural and aquatic products. of Vietnam have residue levels of agrochemicals in excess of EU regulations. Accordingly, on October 6, the Ministry of Industry and Trade issued an official dispatch on the recall of a batch of fragrant rice like ST25 of a Vietnamese brand in Belgium. This consignment was carried out by an exporting company that had self-inspected the quality of rice in consultation with the Belgian Federal Agency for Food Chain Safety (FASFC). The test results showed that the consignment had a pesticide residue level of 0.017 mg per kg of tricyclazole, according to EU regulations, the maximum allowed residue level is 0.01 mg per kg. Therefore, the above company actively posted a recall notice, asking customers not to consume this ...
Source: VNExpress

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