Analyses of food and agricultural exports from Turkey to the European Union in 2020 have shown that some 25 percent of all products were deemed unsuitable, and 20 percent were contaminated with pesticides that are banned within the bloc, food engineer and food safety advocate Bülent Şık wrote for news website Bianet on Tuesday.
Şık said he combed through the European Commission’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) records for the last two years, and found that Turkish exports contained traces of pesticides that are also banned in Turkey.
The bloc has detected 13 banned substances on the exports, Şık found.
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