Azerbaijan introduced a temporary restriction on the import of peppers and kiwi from Iran
AFSA revealed that after examining 19 shipments of peppers and 34 shipments of kiwis imported by Iranian companies, quarantine pests (brown fruit wrinkling virus and mulberry scale insect) were detected, respectively.
The agency sent notifications to the Iranian National Plant Protection Organization regarding the incidents and urged it to investigate and report the results.
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