The Minister of Agriculture, Petre Daea, says in the context of an investigation that revealed the fact that several vegetable producers allegedly put up for sale vegetables sprayed with toxic substances with a concentration eight times higher than the permitted limit, that those who do so will no longer benefit from subsidies that offered by the Ministry of Agriculture.

He says the authorities will monitor those who receive financial support through the national programs for growing vegetables in greenhouses and solariums, so that unsuitable products due to the high content of chemicals no longer enter the market.

• “First of all, I very clearly told the phytosanitary specialists to follow every producer who has this vegetable program, and they are obliged by this regulatory act to check. This is the first thing he should do.
• Secondly, I advise farmers not to use these procedures, because they will be under control, and those who use these means will not have government support in the future. We monitor such situations and we must remove them from the practice of those who aim to artificially increase the speed of biological processes and get early, with the artificial means they use, with the help of substances that are prohibited,” he stated for Agerpres. Petre Yes.

According to him, it is not possible to control when vegetables leave the retail chains, but “it is necessary to monitor this at the producer.”

Spraying vegetables with concentrated solutions is 8 times higher than EU standards

The Buzău County Police Inspectorate (IPJ) recently reported that several searches were organized in Buzău and Ilfov counties, after which a man was caught red-handed transporting hundreds of containers of chemicals from Turkey.

According to sources close to the investigation, one of the persons purchased the relevant substances with a concentration higher than that allowed in the European Union. The other two suspects, farmers from the commune of Glodeanu Sărat, gradually increased the saturation of the solution up to eight times in order to make the vegetables ripen in the shortest time in order to sell them during the period when their price is higher. . After tomatoes, peppers and other vegetables from solariums were cooked, they were sold in wholesale warehouses in contractual relations with hypermarkets, so there were cases when vegetables ended up on the shelf in the BIO category.

The Buzau Sanitary, Veterinary and Food Safety Authority (DSVSA) announced in the same context that the June 1st deadline for market controls targeting vegetable traders had been postponed by two weeks following reports that vegetables sprayed toxic substances, would enter the trade.

“In view of the incident that happened last week, the Directorate of Veterinary Sanitation, through its management, has ordered to strengthen control towards primary production, in the sense that control will be postponed for two weeks and will start from May 15 at the level of primary production. the production of vegetables, namely tomatoes,” Iulian Moca, spokesman for DSVSA Buzeu, told Agerpres.