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Editor's note: Ukraine used to be called the "breadbasket of Europe." Now it's the "toxic basket of Europe." It looks like Ukrainian farmers and bureaucrats in the EU have been cheating on wheat production. In three independent accredited lab tests the Slovakian government has found unacceptable amounts of a banned pesticide in wheat grown in Ukraine. Does the government of Netherlands know or even care about toxic pesticides used by Ukrainian farmers? In one batch of 1,500 tons of Ukrainian wheat, a pesticide not allowed in the EU was detected in the grain. There are some really bad deals going down between Poland, the EU and Ukrainian wheat production. Now because of ineptness, EU bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption, incompetence and cheating, tons of wheat grown in Ukraine will now have to be burned because of the detection of this pesticide and from mold. Good going cheaters...your US sponsors can add another credit to their support of Ukraine. Farmers in the countries of Romania, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and Slovakia lost an estimated €410 million because of the influx of compromised cheap Ukrainian grain into those countries.
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Source: Interfax

Slovakia halts processing batch of Ukrainian grain over exceeded norms of pesticides

April 13, 2023

MOSCOW. April 13 (Interfax) - Slovakia has halted processing a batch of Ukrainian wheat after exceeded norms of pesticides were found in it, Ukrainian media outlets said with a reference to acting Slovakian Agriculture Minister Samuel Vlcan.

Vlcan mentioned that he had ordered to tighten control over Ukrainian grain as early as in July 2022. "Even before we started placing seals on all transit trucks with Ukrainian grain, a relatively big sample of Ukrainian grain had been intercepted, and three independently accredited laboratories confirmed the presence of the increased content of pesticide residue in it," Vlcan said.

One of the largest mills in Slovakia was processing the batch of Ukrainian grain in which the increased pesticide content had been found. The remaining 1,500 tonnes of grain from this batch will not be processed.

The authorities of Slovakia will receive the results of the examination of the identified batch of wheat by the end of this week, and it will be clear if the pesticide residue in it is harmful to human health.

According to Vlcan, if Ukrainian grain had been supplied to Slovakia via a member state of the European Union, for instance, Poland, the existing control system would have made it possible to trace the purchase.

"So we're trying to find the source of this wheat. However, if the wheat has already been ground, for instance, in Poland, we won't be able to track it anymore. At the same time, we're conducing spot checks even of such imports [of flour]," the acting agriculture minister said.

Vlcan called on grain processors to be cautious while purchasing agricultural products, including those legally imported to Slovakia, from countries outside the EU.

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