Polish watchdog rejects another batch of Ukrainian ice cream as defective

MOSCOW. April 15 (Interfax) - The Poznan office of the Polish agricultural and food products quality inspectorate IJHARS has issued a directive barring a batch of 7.13 tonnes of ice cream cones imported from Ukraine from being sold on the Polish market.

Ukrainian media reported with reference to the Polish watchdog's social media post on Monday that the decision was made due to mislabeling and was enforced immediately.

As reported, IJHARS barred two shipments of sponge cakes imported from Ukraine and weighing in total 10.55 tonnes from entering the Polish market on April 12.

It previously banned three shipments of Ukrainian ring-shaped cracknels weighing 5.34 tonnes on April 9.

Earlier, three shipments of Ukrainian ice cream weighing 8.48 tonnes were seized in Lublin due to its defrosting.

IJHARS said earlier in April that it fined an importing company 1.5 million zloty (about $380,000), the largest fine in its history, for bringing 11,500 tonnes of technical-grade rapeseed and feed wheat to the Polish market from Ukraine and marketed later as food-grade products.

It has also banned 57.66 tonnes of tomato paste imported from Ukraine due to mold.

IJHARS Chief Inspector Przemyslaw Rzodkiewicz said in March that the agency's commission rejected 1.4% of food products from Ukraine inspected at the border in March.