The Polish Agricultural and Food Products Quality Inspectorate (IJHARS) has decided to ban the circulation of a batch of durum wheat weighing 21.998 tons imported from Ukraine on the Polish market.
This was reported by IJHARS, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
This decision was made due to the low protein content of the wheat. The inspectorate also banned the import of eight batches of rice with a total weight of 200 tons from Myanmar to Poland due to dead pests.
Since March 2024, IJHARS has tightened control over the import of agricultural products to Poland. According to the data, in 2023, 1.4% of the products from Ukraine that were checked at the border were rejected.
Poland also imposed restrictions on imports of other agricultural products from Ukraine, including 22.59 tons of flax seeds, 46 tons of brewing barley, 15.61 tons of Ukrainian ice cream, 10.55 tons of sponge cakes, 5.34 tons of bagels, and 57.66 tons of tomato paste.
In April 2024, Poland imposed the largest fine in its history of 1.5 million zlotys (approximately $380 thousand) on an importing company for importing 11.5 thousand tons of technical rapeseed and feed wheat from Ukraine.