OREANDA-NEWS. August 27, 2010. As it was communicated on Thursday at press conference by Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Valeriu Cosarciuc, the Federal Service on Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of Russia announced on readiness to actualize the list after the request of Prime Minister of Moldova Vladimir Filat to Chairman of the Government of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

The head of the Ministry of Agriculture noted Moldova would submit for consideration to Rosselkhoznadzor a list of 313 companies, exported fruit and vegetables to Russia. It should be noted, initially 136 economic agents were in the list of companies, authorized to deliver fruit and vegetables to Russia. Rosselkhoznadzor refused to increase the list from 136 to 177 companies, and, on the contrary, reduced it to 33 companies because many products that didn’t correspond to safety standards came from Moldova.

Most often number of pesticides in the apples exceeded. Valeriu Cosarciuc told Moldova stood for increase of number of vegetables and fruit suppliers to Russia. He noted, the absolute majority of Moldavian companies, delivering fruit and vegetables to Russia, didn’t break the terms of delivery, stipulated by special memorandum, signed in 2008. According to this document, Rosselkhoznadzor may start to exclude Moldavian companies from the list of suppliers of plant products to Russia if during 180 days it reveals three times the excess of permissible pesticides rate in fruit and vegetable products.

The head of the Ministry of Agriculture of Moldova told Moldavian suppliers didn’t make such repeated violations during 180 days. Let us recall, in 2005 Russia imposed a ban on Moldavian plant products deliveries to Russia, motivating it by the fact that the Plant Protection Service of Moldova didn’t observed the corresponding international requirements, resulting in possibility of penetration of dangerous diseases and pests to Russia together with local vegetables and fruit. Moldova resumed the fruit export to Russia in March 2007, after toughening of quality control of delivered products.