site.btaFood Safety Agency Rejects 22 t of Foods a Day at Kapitan Andreevo Checkpoint for Excess Pesticide Content

Parts of the Kapitan Andreevo border control checkpoint were declared a national security site. The decision was taken at the meeting of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, caretaker Agriculture Minister Yavor Gechev told journalists.

"We strongly believe that Bulgaria's rightful place is in the Schengen area, caretaker Prime Minister Galab Donev said ahead of the Council of Ministers meeting on Wednesday.

Outgoing Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said that an audit was conducted at the Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint on the Bulgarian-Turkish border. "For 12 hours a day over the course of four days, the checkpoint was audited by experts from the European

European Commission auditors, accompanied by Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) Director Hristo Daskalov, will be at the Kapitan Andreevo Checkpoint on Bulgaria's border with Turkey on Thursday to inspect the phyto-sanitary control there, Daskalov said in an interview on Bulgarian National Radio Thursday.

Deputy Agriculture Minister Ivan Hristanov has been assigned personal security detail after he received life threats following a row over the expulsion of a company that for ten years had a contract for lab tests at a busy checkpoint on the Bulgarian-Turkish border. That transpired Tuesday when Prime Minister Kiril Petkov met with farmers in Sadovo, southern Bulgaria, where crops were severely damaged or destroyed by a hailstorm in late May.