The Agency's specialists had reportedly revealed the lot at a wholesale warehouse near Krasnodar.
The owners of the pears were not able to present "the shipping and phytosanitary documents."
The whole lot was destroyed "by means of burning in a furnace at a specialized enterprise."
In response to the Western sanctions, Russia introduced a food embargo in August 2014. Since then, imports of fruits from a number of countries, including the EU, has been banned.
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