“The reason for the ban was the repeated detection of dangerous quarantine objects in Moldovan products entering Russia, about which the Moldovan side was repeatedly informed by the service,” RIA Novosti quotes Yulia Melano, adviser to the head of the department.
Earlier, the Minister of Agriculture of Moldova, Vladimir Bolya, said that the wheat harvest in the country would be a third less than last year due to the worst drought in the last ten years.
In May, it was reported that the Rosselkhoznadzor limited the supply of live poultry and poultry products to Russia from the US states of Washington, Oregon, Oklahoma and New Jersey.