"The decisions have been made immediately enforceable," the Chief Inspectorate of Trade Quality of Agricultural and Food Products announced in a message published on Facebook.
Errors on ice cream packaging
According to information provided by IJHARS, inspectors found irregularities on ice cream packaging. Inspectors noticed, among others: using two different flavor names of the same product on one label and incorrectly given names of food additives. As a result, IJHARS issued two decisions banning the introduction of four batches of ice cream with a total weight of 12,261.6 kg to the Polish market.
Intensified controls on products from Ukraine
This is not the first time this year that Polish border services detained products from Ukraine. According to Dr. Tomasz Białas, director of the Office of Strategy and Internal Control at the Chief Inspectorate of Commercial Quality of Agricultural and Food Products, from January 1 to June 30, 2024, the inspection issued 167 decisions prohibiting the introduction of products to the market. Most of these decisions, as many as 124, concerned goods from Ukraine. In the half-year ranking, Great Britain took second place (14 bans), and Serbia took third place (10 bans).
The most frequently detected irregularities by IJHARS inspectors are errors in product labeling, such as illegal use of the "GMO-free" declaration, lack of labeling in Polish, and irregularities in the provision of nutritional values. At the beginning of May this year, IJHARS in Lublin detected the presence of dead and live pests in a batch of 22,590 kg of flax seeds imported from Ukraine, which was also the reason for issuing a marketing ban.
