PARIS (AFP) - French authorities said Monday that they had dismantled a long-running scam to label and sell Italian kiwis as more pricey French fruit.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS - French authorities said Monday that they had dismantled a long-running scam to label and sell Italian kiwis as more pricey French fruit.
The fraud involved some 15,000 tonnes of kiwis over a three-year period, and the agency said seven companies were facing charges after making a combined six million euros in illicit profits. "Unlike the Italians, we don't use anti-spoiling fungicides after harvesting which conserve them for several months, so we have higher losses in cold-storage rooms, which increases our production costs," said Francois Lafitte, president of the French kiwi growers' association.
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