The day before yesterday, employees of the Sverdlovsk referent center of the Rosselkhoznadzor conducted quarantine phytosanitary control at the cargo terminal of the Koltsovo airport. They examined and conducted a laboratory examination, sections of flowers and pottery in the amount of 263364 pieces, received from Slovakia. 420 slices of flowers were infected.
When carrying out inspection in a batch of "Tacazzi" slices of roses in the quantity of 220 pieces.
and in cuts of chrysanthemums of the cultivar "Baccardiwhite" in the amount of 200 pieces, a quarantine pest was found - the western (Californian) flower thrips. In order to prevent the spread of the pest, contaminated products in the amount of 420 pcs.. destroyed.
In total for the first half of this year, the state inspectors of the quarantine phytosanitary control department checked 281,600 pieces of flower cuts that entered the territory of the Sverdlovsk Region.