Non-conforming consignment of strawberries withdrawn from commerce in Moldova

15:17 | 31.03.2022 Category: Economic

Chisinau, 31 March /MOLDPRES/ - Inspectors of the National Food Safety Agency (ANSA) have found a batch of imported strawberries with exceeded maximal limit of residuum of Acetamiprid pesticide.

According to ANSA, the sale of the non-conforming consignment was banned and an instruction was issued to withdraw it from trade.

With the appearance of new season fruits and vegetables, the National Food Safety Agency boosts controls based on the programme on monitoring and supervision, approved for the 2022 year.

Consumers are urged to buy food products from authorized/officially registered places. Traders must have acts confirming the inoffensiveness of the vegetal products which they sell and namely: reports of attempts carried out by an accredited laboratory or the certificate of inoffensiveness, which they should present to consumer, upon request.

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