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How bizarre.  Is there any evidence they are any less safe than any 
other commonly eaten fruit?  I wonder what kind of proof the UK 
requires re the safety of foreign food products.


On Jun 8, 2004, at 9:36 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote:

> Sask. minister in a jam over U.K. berry ban
> Last Updated Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:45:38
>
> REGINA - A dispute over a little Canadian berry looked to be 
> escalating into a major transatlantic jam on Tuesday, as 
> Saskatchewan's agriculture minister threatened retaliation against the 
> U.K. over a food warning.
>
> Britain's Food Standard Agency has taken saskatoon berry products off 
> store shelves and ordered a full pre-market safety evaluation, saying 
> there's no evidence the berries are safe to eat.
>
> Saskatchewan's agriculture minister Mark Wartman said the Royal Family 
> eat saskatoons when they visit, and if the berries are good enough for 
> the royals, they should be good enough for commoners.
>
> FROM MAY 7, 2004: Britain plucks saskatoon berries from store shelves 
> Wartman said his government has written to the federal government 
> asking for "steps to be taken."
>
> But taking his cue from the famous Boston Tea Party that marked the 
> American Revolution, he threatened more radical action could be taken 
> in Regina.
>
> "If it really comes down to it, we're thinking of having a special 
> time out in Wascana Harbour, where we may be dumping tea – English 
> Breakfast tea – and we could be dumping steak-and-kidney pie … We 
> could be dumping HP Sauce …," Wartman said.
>
> "We're not going to take this lying down," he warned.
>
> The saskatoon berry is the small purple fruit of a shrub found in 
> North America, particularly in the northwest of Canada, and has been 
> grown commercially since the late 1960s.
>
> Widely used for centuries by aboriginals, the berries are used in 
> Canada for things such as jam, pie and cider. Canadian officials 
> insist they are safe to eat.
>
> The fruit is exported to the United States and Japan but has no 
> history of consumption in Europe.
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/06/08/canada/berry040608
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