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Food scandal with strawberries from Greece, AKU: The entire quantity with pesticides was sold on the market

Politiko 2025-04-04 16:18:21

Food scandal with strawberries from Greece, AKU: The entire quantity with

Another food safety alert has shocked Albanian consumers. The National Food Authority (AKU) has announced that a quantity of strawberries imported from Greece has resulted in pesticide content outside the permitted norms, but the quantity of 52 kg has already been distributed and fully sold on the market.

According to the official announcement, the strawberries were taken for laboratory analysis on February 17, within the framework of the Risk-Based Monitoring Plan. After the results showed the presence of dangerous pesticides, the AKU immediately started tracking and requested withdrawal from the market. However, based on the invoices submitted by the importing entity, it turned out that all the strawberries had already been sold.

AKU:  In the context of transparency and public information, the National Food Authority informs that for every case found (in the market or at Border Inspection Points), resulting in non-compliance with the requirements and standards of the legislation in force for imported products, the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed - RASFF is notified.

Regarding the case of the Strawberry product of a quantity of 52 kg, imported from the State of Greece, the AKU, based on the Risk-Based Monitoring Plan, implemented the procedure of sending it on February 17, 2025 for laboratory analysis and after the result was released, it was committed through the traceability system to collect and withdraw this quantity of strawberries from the market. Based on the sales invoices submitted by the Food Business Operator, the entire quantity was sold.

Immediately after this incident, the National Food Authority conducted a risk assessment for this product and categorized it as high risk.

For this reason, all Border Inspection Points have been contacted to sample 10 consecutive shipments and block each strawberry shipment at the border until the results of the analysis of each sample are available for the product that can continue to be imported from Greece.

The purpose of ordering such blockages at the BIP is to await any results of sample analysis in such cases. Based on these results, it will be determined whether the imports will be allowed for trade within Albanian territory or will be returned to the country of origin.

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