the EU, through its control agency, detects a banned fungicide in tomatoes imported from Morocco.

THE SUBSTANCE IS DETECTED IN SOME ITEMS procymidone.

The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed of the European Union, RASFF, Europe has issued a health alert affecting the Moroccan tomato.

In particular, The alert was made public at supermarkets detected in Sweden lots of Moroccan tomatoes with traces of procymidone, a fungicide whose use is prohibited in tomato cultivation in the EU for several years.

Health alert declared in the European Union highlights the insufficient border controls on fruit and vegetables originating in Morocco, which it has been repeatedly denounced by FEPEX and other producer organizations of the European Union and the need to strengthen controls at entry points.

On the other hand, producing and exporting organizations Canarias, FEDEX y ACETO, have ratified the complaints had been making about the lack of controls in many games, which makes the compertencia not only illegal but deleal.