On May 2, when inspecting two batches of peppers from China, specialists of the department for supervision in the field of plant quarantine at the state border of the Russian Federation found the vegetables were infected with the brown wrinkle virus of tomato fruits.
According to the press service of the Trans-Baikal Territory Rosselkhoznadzor, 1.176 tons of regulated products were stopped. The fact of detection was confirmed by the results of virological studies conducted by the specialists of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Zabaikalsky Reference Center of Rosselkhoznadzor.” The parties were banned from being imported into Russia.
Source: a-ipp.ru