MOSCOW – Russia has announced that it is lifting its ban on raw vegetables from all European Union countries with effect from yesterday, the head of the country’s consumer watchdog said.
Russia banned imports of raw vegetables from the European Union on June 2nd due to a deadly E. coli outbreak. Moscow later agreed to drop the ban provided it received safety guarantees and has since allowed imports from some EU nations.
The EU, which exported about €600 million worth of vegetables to Russia last year, had said the blanket prohibition was not scientifically justified.
