Russian federal service to inspect refrigerator warehouses for fruits' preservation in Moldova

Chisinau, 16 December /MOLDPRES/ - A delegation of the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) on 18 December will come to Moldova to inspect refrigerator warehouses, in which fruits are preserved, in order to extend the list of companies authorized to export to the Russian market.   

The experts will come to Chisinau at an invitation by the National Food Safety Agency (ANSA), in order to collect facts on “technologies of production and preservation of vegetal origin goods meant for export.”

ANSA Director Gheorghe Gaberi has said that he hopes that, following the visit by the Rosselkhoznadzor delegation, the list of companies authorized to export fruits to the Russian market would increase. During this year, the Agency insisted that Rosselkhoznadzor considers the applications on export in vegetal production to Russia, received from 264 potential fruit exporters from Moldova.    

Rosselkhoznadzor experts paid the last visit to Moldova in 2016, when they inspected nurseries of fruit trees and vine cuttings.  

According to the National Statistics Bureau (BNS), the exports of vegetables and fruits from Moldova grew by 36.7 per cent in the first ten months of 2017 against the same period of the year before. According to official statistics, confirmed by ANSA, in January-July, 107,000 tons of fruits were exported to the market of the Commonwealth of Independent States. On the other hand, after last August, the  Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance banned the entrance of 197.6 tons of plums and apples on the market of Russia. In all the eight cases of interdiction, Rosselkhoznadzor informed that Grapholitha molesta Busck had been discovered in fruits.    

(Reporter V. Bercu, editor A. Raileanu)