At the airport of Vladivostok when carrying out phytosanitary control in respect of passengers arriving on a flight from Uzbekistan, two women in Central Asia was discovered regulated products - seeds Masha. In connection with repeated cases of detection in the cabin and the baggage of passengers arriving from Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan quarantine objects, from April 2012 the Rosselkhoznadzor imposed temporary restrictions on import of regulated products coming from these countries in the cabin and the baggage of passengers.

Laboratory analysis conducted by the Coastal branch of the all-Russian centre for plant quarantine" of the Rosselkhoznadzor, has shown that both parties Masha is chetyrehbalnoy weevil. This insect is an agricultural pest is a quarantine for Russia, the object, and products, infected them, the country is not allowed. In this regard, the seeds Masha were seized and destroyed as a threat for phytosanitary security.