Tomatoes, frozen chicken meat imports with pests destroyed in Georgia
Quarantine pests were found in tomatoes imported from Turkey to Georgia via Sarpi customs checkpoint. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Employees of the Sanitary, Phytosanitary and Veterinary Control Division of the Customs Department have found 1,952 kilograms of tomatoes and 82,500 kilograms of frozen chicken meat 'non-compliant with import requirements at Sarpi and Poti Port customs checkpoint of Georgia.
More specifically, quarantine pests were found in tomatoes imported from Turkey to Georgia via Sarpi customs checkpoint, while ‘pests dangerous to health' were found in frozen chicken meat imported from Poti Port customs checkpoint.
Both products were destroyed.
In addition, by order of the Georgian National Food Agency, the manufacturing company of frozen chicken meat was suspended from importing into Georgia for a period of one year.
The National Food Agency of Georgia has found more than 500 kg of horse and cattle meat of unknown origin near the Batumi produce market in the Georgian Black Sea region of Adjara. The agency says that following the law, cattle must be slaughtered at a slaughterhouse and the meat must have certain documents of approval before sale.
US ship Ocean Grand has entered Black Sea Poti Port, bringing in 14,000 tonne of high-quality US wheat, says the United States Embassy in Georgia.
A new, improved system of animal identification and registration which contains information about cattle in Georgia and their owners is now fully functional, announces the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
The National Food Agency of Georgia is responding to the discovery of traces of the new coronavirus in cargoes of frozen chicken wings imported from Brazil to China, saying that at this stage Georgia has not received any notification from international organisations regarding restrictions on chicken imports.
Higher nitrate content was observed in 16 of 100 vegetable and fruit samples imported or produced in Georgia, announces the National Food Agency of Georgia. The National Food Agency says that the nitrates were found mainly in beet samples, the sale of which was banned in the country.
The Georgian National Food Agency has begun identifying and removing “suspicious” batches of chocolate from the country’s market due to the hundreds of reported cases of the Salmonella bacterial infection across the world.