Russia reports citrus imports and Mediterranean fruit fly detections

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More than 7,000 tonnes of citrus fruit from 11 countries entered Russia’s Kaliningrad region between January 1 and October 8, according to Rosselkhoznadzor.

Mandarins accounted for 3,300 tonnes, including around 1,700 tonnes from Turkey. Oranges totalled 2,100 tonnes, with Egypt supplying 1,700 tonnes. Imports also included more than 1,000 tonnes of fresh lemons, 174 tonnes of pomelos, 424 tonnes of grapefruits, 76 tonnes of limes and around 9 tonnes of sweeties. Suppliers included Turkey, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Israel, China, Morocco and South Africa.

Additional consignments of oranges, lemons, grapefruits, pomelos, limes, mandarins and sweeties arrived from Argentina, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Peru.

Russian inspectors reported several detections of the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) in imported citrus consignments.

A 20-tonne shipment of Turkish mandarins was found to be infested in the Moscow region, while a separate 19.9-tonne consignment from Turkey was found to contain the same pest in Krasnodar. The latter shipment was released after phytosanitary treatment and laboratory tests confirmed the absence of quarantine pests.

In St. Petersburg, laboratory tests confirmed the pest’s presence in six consignments from South Africa: two shipments of mandarins weighing 47 tonnes in total and four shipments of oranges weighing 156 tonnes. The release of all six consignments, totalling 203 tonnes, was prohibited under Eurasian Economic Union phytosanitary requirements.

Source: fsvps.gov.ru

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