Most pesticides were found in Turkish vegetables and fruits
Fruits
Vegetables
Turkiye
Published Nov 5, 2022
Tridge summary
During the export-import campaign of 2021-2022, the European Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) registered a total of 658 notifications to countries due to the high content of pesticides in fruits and vegetables that arrived in the European Union or from third countries, or from the EU, according to data prepared by analysts of the Hortoinfo portal from the aforementioned service.
Original content
The publication EastFruit writes about it. The country that received the highest number of warnings from the system between September 1, 2021 and August 31, 2022 was Turkey: a total of 356 warnings about exceeding the permissible pesticide residues when supplied to the European market. The palm of the championship went to Bulgarian pepper - 85 batches of Bulgarian pepper, which in a large percentage of cases were destroyed when they reached the borders of the European Union. Next come grapes and lemons with 78 cases for each position, then tangerines - 56 cases and a smaller number of violations for oranges, pomegranates, tomatoes and some vegetables. Follow the news in a convenient format: Follow us on Twitter Turkey, however, is followed by Egypt by a significant margin in terms of the number of pesticide residue reports - only 35 cases. 26 warnings were registered for India, 22 for Uganda, 18 for China, 14 for Ecuador, 13 for Kenya, 12 for Iran. Of the 10 reports received by ...
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