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Necessary measures to lift restrictions on the export of tomato products from Azerbaijan to Kazakhstan are underway, a source in the Food Safety Agency (FSA) of Azerbaijan told Trend.
According to the source, on January 8-15, 2021, the agency received 17 notifications confirming the detection of the brown wrinkle virus in tomato products exported from Azerbaijan to Kazakhstan, and from January 16, the export of tomatoes to this country was temporarily restricted.
The source noted that over 1,363 tons of tomatoes were exported from Azerbaijan to Kazakhstan in 2020. During 2020 and at the beginning of 2021, both of our countries have exported tomato products to many countries of the world, including the Netherlands, Poland, Estonia, Moldova, Qatar, Russia, the UAE, Belarus, and Georgia. However, no cases of detection of the above virus by importing countries have been registered,” the source said.