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MPs ban private labs at border

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Phytosanitary control at border crossings will be carried out only in the laboratories of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA), MPs decided. Deputies adopted at first reading a bill to amend and supplement the Agri-Food Chain Management Act, submitted by Kiril Petkov of We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria and a group of MPs on 26 April 2023. This will ban the operation of private laboratories at the border. 
Last year, two of the BFSA buildings in the area of the Kapitan Andreevo BCP were designated as strategic sites of national security importance, making it impossible to subcontract border phytosanitary control. 
Toshko Yordanov
There is Such a People's Toshko Yordanov suggested that the law should be finally adopted only after the state has a laboratory at the checkpoints. "Otherwise, we will end up with the same situation that happened when the control was stopped by the private company, and then the goods were delivered to Sofia - there were windows without checking, the results were delayed, all in all a merry chaos," he reasoned.



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