Marino de Dios, President of the "Cooperativa Nacional de la Harina" in the Dominican Republic denied that the Dominican flour used in its production carcinogenic additives such as Potassium Bromate, of Azodicarbonamide, as stated by the Haitian government https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14491-haiti-notice-dominican-flour-quarantined.html .

He believes that this charge of Haiti and the action taken against the import of flour in the neighboring country, has a political motive in retaliation for the migration crisis between the two countries.

He added that wheat flour made by the Dominican Republic, respects the ISO standard 9001 of the Dominican Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Marino de Dios urged the Dominican Government to take appropriate measures to prevent the flour producers are affected by this unjustified measure.

Recall that the importation of flour and wheat from the Dominican Republic represents more than 100 million US dollars per year [flour, $22 million, wheat $97 millions, Source Ministry of Agriculture of Haiti, for the 2013/2014 fiscal year].

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14698-haiti-health-mysterious-contaminated-flour-in-dr.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14491-haiti-notice-dominican-flour-quarantined.html

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-14490-haiti-trade-noticewheat-flour-import-from-the-dominican-republic.html

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