Almost 200 tons of Brazilian peanuts were not allowed in St. Petersburg due to infection

A shipment of peanuts from Brazil was refused to enter St. Petersburg. More than 175 tons of nuts were infected with pests.

78.ru With reference to the Rosselkhoznadzor, he writes that the laboratory tests were carried out by specialists from the St. Petersburg branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Central Committee of the Agroindustrial Complex. It turned out that peanuts are infected with dried fruit seedling, small flour khrushchak and small bulavous khrushchak.

In accordance with regulatory legal documents, it was decided to ban the import of the consignment into Russia.

Earlier it was reported that a shipment of red rice weighing 17 tons was not allowed in St. Petersburg. The cargo, which arrived from Vietnam, was stopped at the city seaport. The inspectors found in the product the seeds of a harmful plant, Ipomoea dimple. Its presence was confirmed by a laboratory examination. In St. Petersburg, this type of weed was first discovered in imported rice.