Russian meat banned from inspection. What else did it stop?

The Agricultural and Food Quality Inspection (IJHARS) in Poland has halted the circulation of several food products due to health and safety concerns. The products include a batch of white rice from Myanmar for containing live and dead pests, frozen minced pollock meat from Russia due to exceeding the minimum durability date, and flax seeds from Ukraine due to the presence of live pests. These decisions were each given immediate enforceability.

Rice, fish meat and flax seeds – cargoes of such products, as part of import control, were recently stopped by the Agricultural and Food Quality Inspection (IJHARS). Its branch in Lublin issued a decision to prohibit the introduction into circulation in Poland of a batch of white rice weighing 25,000 kg, imported from Myanmar, due to the presence of live and dead pests. IJHARS in Szczecin decided to prohibit the introduction into circulation in Poland of a batch of 21,890.7 kg of frozen, minced pollock meat from Russia. In this case, the issue was the exceeding of the minimum durability date. On the other hand, the Rzeszów ...