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$500 million Aussie strawberry industry at risk
TONNES of strawberries are being dumped or going to waste around the country as the needle contamination scare threatens the future of the half-a-billion-dollar industry. Western Australia Strawberry Growers Association head Jamie Michael shared a photo of truckloads of fruit being dumped after a needle was found in South Australia in a punnet sourced from WA. “We are dumping strawberries — we have stopped some of the varieties already,” he told the ABC.
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That is horrible. One thing they could d is run them through a needle detector, the same kind of machines they have in garment factories. They are extremely sensitive.