No more import of red chillies from Vietnam till year end
Published on: Wednesday, July 31, 2019
By: Bernama
Kuala Lumpur: THERE will be no more import of red chillies from Vietnam permitted until the end of this year, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Sim Tze Tzin.
He said this follows the testing of samples of red chillies from Vietnam found the content of maximum residue limit (MRL) exceeded the permitted level.
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“The ministry has also sent a notification to the Vietnamese authorities to take the appropriate action and report the preventive measures that were taken which would allow the ban of import permit to be lifted.
“The ministry also set the conditions for sanitation and phytosanitation for the import of fresh chillies from Vietnam such as requiring the certification for good agriculture practices and encouraging the planting and production of local chillies which were free of pesticide and of good quality to meet domestic demand,” he said at the Oral Question Session at the Senate Monday.
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