A phytosanitary control laboratory was opened at the Khartsyzsk Customs Post

Today, on January 31, a new laboratory was opened at the Khartsyzsk Customs Post on the basis of the Phytosanitary Control Service of the State Inspectorate under the DPR Ministry of Agriculture and Food Policy. According to the correspondent of the Official Website of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the DPR Minister of Agriculture and Food Policy Artyom Kramarenko visited at the opening.

“The phytosanitary control laboratory has been accredited and certified to conduct a number of tests. This will enable us not only to rationalize the workload among specialists, but also to create more comfortable conditions for our entrepreneurs, and also to speed up cargo flows and enhance the operational response to the penetration of quarantine objects and pests of both herbal and animal origin into the Republic.

In August last year, Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin charged us with such a task and today we completed it. From now on, entrepreneurs do not need to go to Donetsk to have laboratory tests conducted. All necessary procedures can be carried out at the customs post, from where the cars with cargo will go onward throughout the Republic,” Artyom Kramarenko said.

For his part, the Head of the Phytosanitary Control Department of the State Inspectorate under the DPR Ministry of Ministry of Agriculture and Food Policy, Irina Shustitskaya, noted that new equipment had been installed in the laboratory, and there were purchased special microscopes, a thermostat, a centrifuge, a binocular, and much more.

“All this equipment will make it possible to identify the presence or absence of quarantine objects in the products that enter the Republic. If they are not identified, the products will end up on the counters. Otherwise, the products will be returned to the sender or will be disposed of,” she added.

In addition to that, it was announced that the plans of the DPR Ministry of Agriculture and Food Policy call for opening the same laboratory at the Novoazovsk Customs Post. However, the new laboratory will be intended not for imported products, but for exported ones.