Record rejections of Turkish and Egyptian fruit and vegetable shipments containing pesticide residue
date:Jun 11, 2021
Bulgaria - and 12 from Egypt were rejected for containing active materials that are banned in the EU, such as chlorpyrifos, methyl chlorpyrifos, and prochloraz, or for exceeding MRL.

These numbers are surely higher, as the European Commission only carries out random inspections of products that enter from Egypt both at the border and at points of sale, and they only inspect 5% of the mandarin lots and 10% of the orange cargo coming from Turkey.

In recent days, La Unio detected how some Valenci

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