Zero to one hundred imported wheat suspected of illegal lead / wheat health confirmed
According to Fars News Agency, Finally The National Standards Organization ended the debate over the contamination of wheat imported from Russia, stating that wheat imported from Russia has no contamination problem and complies with the set standards.
The National Standards Organization of Iran announced today: “Following the news published in some media regarding the import of lead-contaminated wheat outside the maximum permissible level of the standard, no discrepancies have been seen in terms of the remaining unauthorized lead in this consignment.” .
“According to the results of sampling and tests, the quality of imported wheat is confirmed and no discrepancies have been seen in terms of the remaining unauthorized lead in this consignment.
According to Note 2 of Article 14 of the Law on Strengthening and Development of Standard System, the quality of imported materials and goods according to necessity and priority and attention to health, safety, health, environmental and economic issues must be in accordance with national standards or valid standards and technical criteria accepted by the National Organization. “Comply with the standard.”
* The story of contaminated wheat imported from Russia
The standard statement relates to imports of wheat from Russia, which about a month ago a university in the south of the country declared that the consignment did not meet the defined standards and had unauthorized lead and was distributed inside the country. They addressed this issue, but the result has not been clear to date.
At that time, the source of information of the University of Medical Sciences and services Jundishapur Health in Authority Fars News Agency stated that the wheat shipment imported from Russia does not comply with the standards in terms of lead content and should not be consumed in the country until a complete health result is achieved.
Fars News Agency did not publish this letter at that time to increase people’s trust in consumer products Inside خدشه Do not hang because there was a situation where the reason for the return of pepper, kiwi, potato and palm export products was a sense of distrust and some did not use these products inside.
Fars News Agency conducted interviews with officials and they confirmed the opinion of Jundishapur Laboratory and said that this consignment was not distributed inside and in order to get a consumption certificate, the standard organization and at least one other reference laboratory must confirm its health. These interviews are in this report today. be released.
They meant that each imported shipment must be approved by at least two reference laboratories in terms of health.
Fars News Agency at the time received confirmation of the health of this wheat from another reference laboratory and expected the standard organization to announce its final opinion to publish a full report of wheat suspected of contamination.
The results of Khatam Reference Laboratory, which confirmed the health of this shipment, are as follows:
Laboratory References Khatam was the first laboratory to confirm the health of this wheat.
The result of this the experiment “Wheat imported from Russia is not contaminated,” he said.
But officials from the Ministry of Jihad for Agriculture were also waiting for the opinion of the National Standards Organization.
The consignment of wheat was cleared through customs, but was kept in warehouses until a consumption certificate was issued to them after final approval. These were the words that officials of the Ministry of Jihad for Agriculture told a Fars reporter.
The interviews of the two ministry officials about the wheat imported from Russia, which are mentioned below, also emphasized that no products will be distributed among the people until their health is determined.
* Consumption certificate has not been issued for imported wheat suspected of having excess lead
Yazdan Seif, the Deputy Minister of Jihad for Agriculture, said at the same time that the contamination of this consignment was being discussed, in an interview with Fars News Agency, in response to the allegation that a consignment of wheat imported from Russia had surplus lead and was distributed inside the country. It is not true at all and this consignment has been cleared, but the consumption certificate has not been issued for it yet.
The CEO of Iran State Trading Company, in response to Jundishapur University announcing that the consignment contained excess lead, said: “The university’s laboratory probably had problems because these two consignments were simultaneously approved by two other laboratories, Rahman Khatam and IGI.”
According to the official, the shipment, which was imported from Russia, has not yet been placed in the distribution system and is waiting to receive a consumption certificate.
Yazdan Seif pointed out that more studies are underway in other laboratories and if this product is safe, it will not be distributed in the country.
In response to the amount of these shipments, Seif said: “It has been in different curettages, the exact weight of which is not known.”
* The slightest contamination is referred to
Since the health of imported agricultural products is of special importance for health, he continued his follow-up to ensure.
The head of the Commercial Services Office of the Ministry of Jihad for Agriculture said that any food consignment that enters the customs is checked in a complete reference laboratory and has the slightest contamination. To take.
Abbas Famous In an interview with the economic correspondent of Fars News Agency in response to the fact that Jundishapur University imported imported ships Flamine Yara, which is owned by a state-owned trading company, said the suspected lead was unauthorized. Has the consignment been cleared through customs? Will be returned and no money will be paid to the exporting country.
He added: “These standards are determined by the Iranian Standards Organization with 48 standard criteria.”
Famous He continued: “If the shipments examined in the laboratories differ from each other, they will be sent to the German Eurofin laboratory.”
The head of the Commercial Services Office of the Ministry of Jihad for Agriculture emphasized that no consignment will enter the country even if it is one ppm outside our set standards.
In response to whether you have agreed on these standards with the importing country, he said yes, all these standards with the country from which we import the product.فهمWe sign letters.
Finally The Standards Organization today confirmed the health of the wheat in a statement so that people would be relieved of the wheat imported from Russia, which was said to be around one million tons.
In this letter, it is emphasized that considering the test results of the samples sent to the laboratory, the wheat shipments in accordance with the national standards of Iran, so their consumption is approved.
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