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Re: Brexit
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Ah - but Leave means that in the "other restaurants" carrots don't have to be a certain length and bananas don't have to have a certain curvature - you know what I mean.
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This has been proven many times to be untrue - sad to see it still being promulgated...
And the carrots standard was about carrots being a certain width at one end to be a Class 1 carrot, not length, and that ruling was scrapped in 2008...
Bananas
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A Brussels ban on bendy bananas is one of the EU’s most persistent myths.
Bananas have always been classified by quality and size for international trade. Because the standards, set by individual governments and the industry, were confusing, the European Commission was asked to draw up new rules.
Commission regulation 2257/94 decreed that bananas in general should be “free from malformation or abnormal curvature”. Those sold as “extra class” must be perfect, “class 1” can have “slight defects of shape” and “class 2” can have full-scale “defects of shape”.
Nothing is banned under the regulation, which sets grading rules requested by industry to make sure importers – including UK wholesalers and supermarkets – know exactly what they will be getting when they order a box of bananas.
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Last edited by Hugh; 03-05-2019 at 09:10.
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