"The Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare has revealed in the food products Fresh Mandarins ... violations of mandatory requirements of the legislation," the ministry said.

It is noted that in the aforementioned tangerines, residual amounts of the pesticide Chlorpyrifos were detected, the concentration of which exceeds the maximum permissible level.

According to the supervisory authority, these tangerines were imported from Turkey.

Earlier, Rospotrebnadzor suspended the import of a number of products from China to Russia due to the identified prohibited components.