Since Russia banned pork from Europe in January, customs
officials have found smugglers labeling pork as mushrooms, frozen fruit juice
and bubblegum.
Bubblegum? That blows my mind.
Smuggled pork has come from The Netherlands, but some has
also come from Germany, Brazil, Poland and Belgium.
Rosselkhoznadzor reported 360 tons of illegal pork from Europe has been
identified recently.
“They are party to
the EU Customs Union, and so the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is directly
responsible for the contents of the containers. As we can see, the EFSA has no
control, and even facilitates, smuggling,” the head of
Rosselkhoznadzor, Sergey Dankvert, told the TASS news agency.
"The
Netherlands, for example, declared the goods as frozen mushrooms, jams, and
marmalade," Dankvert is quoted as saying.
This is the second instance of pork smuggling that
Rosselkhoznadzor has discovered in the last month.
On October 13, the agency found that more than 60 tons of
German and Dutch pork entered Russia labeled as mushrooms from China.
Rosselkhoznadzor began investigating the questionable cargo
arriving at the Belarus border along with the Federal Customs Service (FTS)
last month.
