Shlomi Fogel, president of Carmel Agrexco, an agricultural export company that operates a farm of blueberries in the Golan Heights, he addressed health and agriculture ministers on Monday in a letter after reports that imported blueberries are being treated with methyl bromide.

He demanded that imported blueberries be labeled so consumers know they have been treated with the chemical. 

According to Fogel, the use of methyl bromide is banned in the country and blueberries grown in Israel are not treated with it. 

“We are in favor of competition in the market Fogel said. "But we were surprised to find that a condition for receiving a license to import blueberries into Israel is that the fruit arrive after being treated with methyl bromide, which, as you know, is a chemical whose use is prohibited in Israel."

Fogel also questioned the different standards for Israeli and foreign blueberry growers.