Russia Tightens Phytosanitary Controls on Fruit and Vegetable Products

Rosselkhoznadzor offices monitored 7.4 million tonnes of imported fruit and vegetable products over 10 months of 2026. These data were presented at the Global Fresh Market exhibition by Natalia Solovyova, head of the phytosanitary supervision department for export-import operations and international cooperation at Rosselkhoznadzor.

Specialists identified 59 types of quarantine objects in more than 10 thousand cases.

Rosselkhoznadzor pays particular attention to seed and planting material. In 39 batches of seeds and seedlings, specialists identified ten types of quarantine objects. As a result:

— the import of seed and planting material from 98 producers from 27 foreign countries has been banned,
— restrictions on supplies from Germany, Latvia, the Netherlands, Denmark and North Macedonia are in effect,
— a temporary ban has been imposed on the import of seeds accompanied by test reports from eight foreign laboratories in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, China and Italy.