The halo around Ukrainian grain is premature and harms us, the Slovak mill is angry – News

The joint-stock company considers the Slovak Ministry of Agriculture’s statement about the dangerous concentration of pesticides in Ukrainian grain to be premature and misleading. “We need to wait for further results. The ministry probably needed to make a hello and found our company. Now it has an impact on the sales of our products,” said Varga according to the Noviny.sk server.

The co-owner of the company stated that the control and measures concerned only one batch of grain and it was blocked.

“We have the results of the analysis of the first sample, but not the results of the reserve and decisive sample. That’s why we called the measures premature and misleading. All our products in consumer packaging and all our products packaged under the brands of retail chains are made 100 percent from wheat from Slovakia,” emphasized Varga.

Since last June, the company has bought about 16,000 tons of Ukrainian grain, which represents less than 12 percent of processed grain annually.

The head of the Slovak Food Administration, Jozef Bíreš, emphasized the importance of suspending the import of Ukrainian grain to Slovakia. “We will see what the result of the counter sample will be. For us, the result from an accredited laboratory is binding,” he added.

Slovakia temporarily stopped the import of grain and other selected products from Ukraine. In addition to grain, the country will not import corn, sugar, fruit, vegetables, honey and wine from Ukraine. It was decided by the local government. “We have stopped the import of those products that we have enough of and those that are at risk of contamination with pesticides,” said Slovak Minister of Agriculture Samuel Vlčan.

In this regard, Bratislava joined Warsaw and Budapest, which decided to ban the import of Ukrainian grain at the weekend. The European Commission has described the unilateral measures of EU member states in the area of ​​trade as unacceptable.