The party of vegetable has been found a dangerous quarantine pest. In the study in the Krasnodar interregional veterinary laboratory in the production found the Californian flower thrips in a concentration of about 0.1% of total production. In Russia this pest is included in the list of quarantine objects, approved by order No. 501 of the Russian Ministry of agriculture on 15 December 2014. On the basis of the prohibition of the shipment was not allowed to be imported and sent back.

Also, the Department noted that since the beginning of this year, there was 26 cases of detection of this pest in Israeli pepper