Polish inspection rejects 10 tonnes of ice cream from Ukraine

MOSCOW. April 8 (Interfax) - The Polish Main Agricultural and Food Quality Inspection (IJHARS)'s branch in Lublin has banned the selling of three batches of Ukrainian ice cream with a total weight of 8.48 tonnes on the domestic market, because of defrosting.

Ukrainian media said on Sunday, citing the inspection's statement on a social network, that the order was fulfilled immediately.

On Saturday, IJHARS' branch in Poznan banned the selling of another batch of Ukrainian ice cream with a total weight of 1.44 tonnes due to the failure to mention the sweetener (aspartame) in the ice cream composition.

Earlier last week, IJHARS reported the largest-ever fine of 1.5 million zlotys (around $380,000) on a company, which imported 11,500 tonnes of Ukrainian technical rapeseed and feed wheat designated counterfeit because of their use as food products.

It also banned a batch of 57.66 tonnes of moldy tomato paste from Ukraine.

A week before that IJHARS Chief Inspector Przemysław Rzodkiewicz said that 1.4% of Ukrainian product batches examined by the agency at the border had been rejected over the past year.