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DPP blamed over pineapple row

DESPITE the Chinese mainland informing Taiwan of the substandard quality of 28 batches of its pineapple in 2020 and reminding it to strengthen management at the source, Taiwan has neither provided any feedback nor rectified the situation, a mainland spokesperson said yesterday.

The mainland’s decision to suspend pineapple imports from the Taiwan region effective from March 1 is a standard precautionary measure to ensure agricultural production and biosecurity, said Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, at a press conference.

Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party has closed the door on solving the problem by politicizing what is a technical problem in a malicious attempt to smear the mainland, Zhu noted. Since 2020, customs authorities on the mainland have on various instances found pests in pineapple imported from Taiwan, which would have posed a serious threat to the mainland’s agriculture and ecological security.


 

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