date:Jul 27, 2012
] protocol requires them to be washed, sprout-inhibited and sealed into containers to go to the processing facilities.
Gall said there was no risk of the potato carrying any insect vector which could transmit any disease, and suppliers and processors would ensure the potatoes did not have the disease.
He says Ausveg, which is lobbying against the ban being lifted, has the opportunity to make a submission against the imports, but that it needed to be based on science.
We will wait and see what