Rosselkhoznadzor (RSHN) did not allow the commercial batch of Azerbaijan with tomatoes infected with quarantine harmful objects to the territory of Russia, the Caucasian Interregional Control of Rosselkhoznadzora reports.
“Caucasian interregional control of the Rosselkhoznadzor in the warehouse of the temporary storage of SVA” Viaduk “during quarantine phytosanitary control in the inspection of the tomato party weighing 16.5 tons, who arrived from Azerbaijan, was identified a quarantine for the Russian Federation – a virus of brown fruit of tomato (tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus), “the departments referred to.
also notes that in the territory of the Republic of Dagestan, this quarantine object was revealed for the first time. Cargo owners in accordance with Russian legislation are attracted to administrative responsibility for violating the law “On quarantine of plants”.
The load is returned back to Azerbaijan.