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Food CrisisEU to restrict Ukrainian sunflower oil after contamination scare(BRUSSELS 24 May 2008) - The European Commission blocked Fridayimports of Ukrainian sunflower oil into the EU until Kiev puts a strict system ofchecks place, after tainted product was found in the bloc last month."Sunflower oil originating in, or consigned from, Ukraine shall not enter theEU unless a valid certificate and results of sampling and analysis for thepresence of mineral oil accompany the sunflower oil consignments,“ it said.UK Food Standards AgencyThe Agency wrote to organisations representing suppliers and importersof cooking oils in May 2008 to alert them to the presence in the UK ofsunflower oil containing mineral oil. The oil originated in Ukraine. Sincethen the European Commission has imposed a temporary ban on allimports of sunflower oil from Ukraine.Total sunflower-seed oil export from Ukraine to the EU is worth $1 billion a year. Thecontaminated oil was discovered in 13 European countries (Belgium, Germany, Spain,France, the Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal,Romania, and Sweden) and nine other states (Albania, Azerbaijan, Ghana, Monaco,Maldives, Turkey, Taiwan, Tanzania and Vanuatu).And these are just the cases that hit the public media