Daily Mail
Thursday, June 26, 2008
A wholesaler has been banned from selling a batch of kiwi fruits because EU regulators say they are one millimetre too small.
Market trader Tim Down was told his perfectly healthy fruits failed to meet strict European standards for size and weight.
Inspectors found some of his stock weighed just 4g less than the minimum EC requirement - and slapped him with a written warning prohibiting their sale.
The father-of-three, 53, is now stuck with a consignment of 5,000 kiwi fruits which he is forbidden to sell or even give away.
It is the latest example of 'barmy' EU laws that have already banished curved cucumbers, straight bananas, skinny carrots and other 'knobbly' vegetables that look less than perfect.
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