Frozen seafood mixtures have a high cadmium content. The exporter is VPA Logistics, a Klaipeda-based company commissioned by Plungės kooperatinė prekyba.
The recipient is the Kyiv-based company Viciunai-Ukraine (a supplier of Viči products). The direct manufacturer is the Chinese Zhejiang Zhoufu Food Co, international certificate LT 0312851/L2-1277 dated January 19, 2023.
Market operators who circulate the above products are warned to withdraw them from circulation.
Cadmium is a metal that is toxic to humans, as are its compounds with other elements. In particular, cadmium oxide is particularly dangerous, and inhalation of its vapors in certain concentrations can be fatal. Cadmium affects the respiratory tract and kidneys. Symptoms of acute poisoning include vomiting and convulsions. In addition, cadmium is a carcinogen.
The capital’s restaurant business felt the consequences of enemy shelling and power outages the most. Many interesting and unique establishments were forced to suspend or even stop their activities. However, the opening of new locations, in particular the expansion of the restaurant chain of Mediterranean cuisine “Porto Maltese“, gives hope for the future.
Restaurant “Porto Maltese” is located in the city center at the address: Lesia Ukrainka Boulevard, 30 B.
The main idea of the establishment is to create the atmosphere of a Mediterranean town in the business center of the capital, which helps to distract the visitor from the stormy life of the city and set up for a leisurely visit, immersion in the atmosphere of a small European port, with the opportunity to dive into the depths of the sea, warm up in the warm company of close friends, share a delicious dinner, enjoy the blue waves and emerge refreshed in anticipation of the next visit to the port.
The complex shape of the restaurant immediately suggests the motive of the future design – two halls, like the bays of the port city, flow into each other, connected by a fish market with fresh catch right under the sails of fishermen, and completed with a summer terrace – an exit from the port to the city. And there is nothing better in the traditions of the Mediterranean than the combination of fresh fish with the family winery.
The atmosphere of the port is also created by the snow-white sails of the ships, the wall with the image of the terrible ruler of the seas, the whale from the “History of Animals” by Konrad von Gesner, which was tamed to protect the exquisite treasures of our restaurant – a collection of bottles of selected wine, which according to legend is created on the neighboring hills. Jellyfish lamps hover slowly over the bar against the backdrop of a rusty ship, waiting for guests.
The interior is soaked in deep sea blue with bright white accents of sails and tablecloths.
On the ceiling, uniting both halls, the sea waves fluctuate in smooth curves, play with rays of warm, like sunlight from a set of bulbs, twist into a whirlpool, drawing the visitor to explore the entire space, explore both halls, and the columns-cables – carefully stacked gear, without which the life of the port is impossible, attract attention with the skill of their performance.
The restaurant’s menu offers a variety of shellfish and fish: sea tongue, mullet, sunfish, stingray wings, turbot and others. Guests can choose the cooking method: sauté, soup, siciliano, in parchment, grilled, homemade and in salt, and then watch the cooking process in the open kitchen.
As well as fresh salad, meat dishes, freshly baked bread, homemade desserts and a wide selection of wines. A unique culinary “route” awaits you – from seafood delicacies, through delicious Serbian cuisine to fresh salads prepared with special care.
The guests of the restaurant have already decided on the favorite of the menu – seafood sauté.
Sommelier will select a wine pair for each position to emphasize the refined taste of the dish. The wine list contains the best samples of wines from around the world.
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Last year, Ukraine increased the import of fish, crustaceans and shellfish by 28.6% compared to 2020, to $874 million, according to the website of the Institute for Agrarian Economics National Research Center on Monday.
According to the institute, Norway retained its status as the largest supplier of these products with a share of 35.2% ($307.6 million) of total imports. Norway has been holding a leading position in the import of fish and seafood to Ukraine for 15 years.
Other major suppliers of these products were Iceland with a market share of 13.2% ($113.6 million), the United States – 7.7% ($67.3), Canada – 5.6% ($49 million), Great Britain – 4.7% ($41.1 million) and Spain – 4.4% ($38.4 million). These six countries combined accounted for 71% of fish and seafood imports in 2021.
“Fish and seafood are traditionally in the top three main types of agricultural food imported to Ukraine. In 2021, the share of products of this group in the structure of foreign supplies of agricultural raw materials to Ukraine turned out to be the largest and amounted to about 11%,” expert Bohdan Dukhnitsky said.
The organization clarified that Ukraine buys mainly frozen, as well as fresh and chilled fish, fish fillets and crustaceans.
