To all,
I have been behind with reading USMA emails. This weekend I must have gone
through almost 400 of them. I could have commented then about the wholesale
produce dealer for whom I worked as comptroller from 1991 to 1997. It was
bought by the big agribusiness, Agway, (headquartered in Syracuse, NY) in
1997 and I became Chief Accountant for one of their people when we were no
longer locally owned.
Anyway, for years we bought 50 lb. bags of rutabagas from a company in
Ontario. I cannot recall the company name or the town now. I always
wondered why they sold them to us in 50 lb. bags. It was undoubtedly
because that the U.S. market required it either because of law or practice.
Norm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 2001April26 12:17
Subject: [USMA:12490] 50 lb bag restriction
Today, the ban on the import of PEI potatoes into the United States has been
lifted.
CBC reports that the PEI potato growers are restricted to shipping the
potatoes into the United States in "50 pound bags".
I strongly suspect that this is the reason why we still see 5, 10, and 20
pound bags of potatoes and other vegetables in Canadian supermarkets... US
package size restrictions. I suspect it is too costly for Canadian producers
to package in kilograms for Canada, the smaller market, and pounds for the
US, the larger market.
Can anyone on the list know some hard facts to support my assumptions?
greg
Saskatoon SK Canada
>From CBC web site: http://cbc.ca/news/indepth/background/pei_potato.html
Lastest information at:
http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/04/26/potato_lk_010426
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Along with keeping the exclusion zone announced
two week earlier, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture said potatoes must be cleaned to get rid
of dirt that could contain spores, treated with a
sprout inhibitor, shipped in consumer packs of no
more than 22.5 kilograms, and clearly labelled
"Product of P.E.I." The ban on seed potatoes
would also continue.
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