Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) - Rospotrebnadzor will suspend the import of Turkish mandarins from 29 October due to the excess of the maximum permissible level of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, the agency's statement said.

“The Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare has identified in the fresh tangerines food products violations of mandatory legal requirements. Residual amounts of the pesticide Chlorpyrifos were found in these mandarins, the concentration of which exceeds the maximum permissible level,” the statements said.

The tangerines, which were found to be in excess of the pesticide, were imported from Turkey. In order to prevent the spread of infection, it was decided to suspend their import. The situation is under the control of Rospotrebnadzor.

Earlier, the import of infected citrus fruits from Turkey was repeatedly banned by the Rosselkhoznadzor. So, at the end of 2018, the service held negotiations with Turkish officials on the supply of citrus crops from this country infected with the Mediterranean fruit fly. Ankara acknowledged the actual situation as negative and explained that in 2018, Turkey experienced particularly favorable weather conditions for the development of the Mediterranean fruit fly, and the measures taken by farmers to suppress the pest were ineffective.