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| Contaminated rice… “There seems to be a stand off and there has been no change in either side’s position.”This is according to Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud who added that independent testing is actively being pursued as it relates to contaminated rice in Colombia that was shipped from Guyana.He added also that in light of the incident, he has asked technical officers to discuss with foreign agencies an expansion of the regime of pre-exportation testing.Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud“There is already some testing to meet export standards….The fact still remains the fungus claimed to be found by the Colombia does exist in our temperature.”The Minister added also that Guyana was still awaiting an official position from the Colombians.To date there has been no update on the independent analysis of the 1,000 tonnes of paddy that was shipped to Colombia from Guyana that was found to be contaminated with “an identified exotic disease”. However, this newspaper has learnt that the paddy was taken to the same port as the contaminated shipments from the USA.Persaud recently told this newspaper that he had called for an independent investigation.According to the Minister, he has since written to the Agriculture Minister of Colombia lodging a mild protest given that the information available to him suggests that the rice may have been contaminated on arrival in Colombia, hence the independent investigation.According to Persaud it is always difficult breaking into a new market and he has informed the Colombians that he is willing to have a Guyanese delegation travel there to resolve the issue.Saj Rice Mills (SRM) shipped the rice from Guyana.When the news first broke, the local Agriculture Minister had said, “I have directed the GRDB [Guyana Rice Development Board] to investigate the matter notwithstanding the company’s pronouncement that the shipment was free of any impurities or fungi when it left Guyana. I have asked that the Colombians, US and the Latin American rice research system – FLAR – be involved.”Reuters had reported that the 1,064 tonnes of rice would be returned to Guyana following the discovery of a fungus, which corresponds to the Tilletia type.The same fungus, Reuters said,Authentic Buffalo Bills Jersey, was detected in 5,493 tons of rice originating from the United States.Shipments have also been barred from Ecuador, Venezuela and Peru.Fearing a possible spread of the fungus in their territory, Colombia immediately ordered the rice transported back to its source.Colombia has the shipment aboard a vessel docked at Port Barranquilla in an attempt to isolate what the report described as an “identified exotic disease.”The procedures were executed to avoid possible contamination of Colombia’s cereals.“All the agricultural imports that enter Colombia are put under a process of quality control,” Reuters said.The fungus identified during this process corresponds to the Tilletia sort plague – a type of fungi, which targets cereals and controlling such a fungus, would increase production costs and products, would not be marketable if contaminated. |
