Customs officers at the Kazbegi checkpoint on the country’s northern border with Russia returned potato and sawn lumber batches to exporting countries after the products failed sanitary and phytosanitary inspection, the Revenue Service said on Tuesday.
The Sanitary, Phytosanitary and Veterinary Control Division of the body’s Customs Department said 42 tons of potatoes, sent as exports to Georgia from different countries, had been rejected due to non-compliance with food safety requirements.
The action follows a similar outcome on 42 tons of potatoes designated for import from Russia earlier this month.
In the other decision, about 69,000 cubic metres of sawn lumber was returned to an exporting country from the customs checkpoint after the cargo failed phytosanitary standards.