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Incorrect standard — blocked shipments: how a state laboratory's mistake turned into problems for an importer
Today — regarding facts of unlawful obstruction of foreign economic activity of importing companies, unjustified delays in customs clearance of perishable goods, and abuse of official powers by officials of #Держмитслужби and #Держпродспоживслужби.
📌This concerns the circumstances of inspection of imported shipments of the company #OLVAR SP. Z O.O., as well as the detention of consignments of oranges, the recipient of which was AMATER LLC. Thus, systematic sampling, prolonged laboratory testing, and issuance of conclusions of nonconformity created artificial obstacles to customs clearance, increased storage costs, and raised the risk of spoilage of perishable goods.
A particularly telling episode involved a batch of fresh oranges weighing 7 776 kg. Based on the laboratory test results, DNDiLDVSE issued an expert conclusion in which the product was declared noncompliant due to the level of the pesticide imazalil. ❗️However, the conclusion applied a maximum residue level of imazalil of 0,01 mg/kg instead of the standard for oranges of 4 mg/kg. The actual test result was 0,722 ± 0,2167 mg/kg, which did not exceed the permissible level.
And here is what we have in the response from the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection itself. In the letter responding to our complaint, the service effectively confirmed that the expert conclusion was drawn up with incorrect application of the regulatory indicator. In particular, it stated that instead of the MRL of 4 mg/kg for oranges, the laboratory used the indicator 0,01 mg/kg, provided for another product category.
Moreover, the State Service reported that DNDiLDVSE canceled the initial expert conclusion and issued a new one, according to which the tested oranges comply with the requirements of the law.
🤷♂️ In other words, the official response effectively confirmed that the state laboratory issued a mistaken expert conclusion due to incorrect application of the MRL value. And this is not simply a technical inaccuracy in a document: it was on the basis of the initial conclusion that the product was declared noncompliant, and its results became grounds for additional inspection of subsequent consignments.
But the consequences of this mistake were not limited to a single shipment. According to the service itself, on 2 and 3 October 2026, two more consignments of oranges from the same producer destined for AMATER LLC arrived at the Krakivets checkpoint.
Only after the cancellation of the initial conclusion on 6 October was a decision made to send the cargos into the declared customs regime pending final results. Subsequent laboratory conclusions from 08.10.2026 also confirmed the product's compliance with established requirements.
We will continue to monitor this situation and insist on an appropriate legal assessment of the officials' actions, clarification of the reasons for issuing the erroneous expert conclusion, and verification of all circumstances of the customs clearance delays. Recognition of a technical error should not become a way to avoid responsibility for its consequences.
Materials on the topic:
▫️Why OLVAR's shipments could not pass inspection for weeks: a scheme involving perishable products
▫️How the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, under the government's umbrella, blocks food supplies and milks “Polish business”
▫️How schemers from the customs office and the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection block imports from Poland. Who will be held accountable for 4 million in losses of OLVAR company?
▫️Lviv Customs and the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection staged a “sanitary genocide” against Polish business
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