Posted on 08/28/2019 7:42:09 PM PDT by hapnHal
China’s first Costco warehouse store opened Tuesday in Shanghai with a variety of goods available for sale, including 90 crates of Santa Maria Valley-grown strawberries.
Watsonville-based California Giant Berry Farms spent the last week working to ensure Chinese shoppers would have fresh Santa Maria strawberries on the shelves of the Shanghai store, which was closed early on Tuesday after large crowds clogged the aisles and caused traffic jams nearby.
Juanita Vega, office coordinator and southern region food safety coordinator for California Giant, said the company had a week’s notice to prepare for the inspections and obtain the phytosanitary certificates needed to export their berries to China.
The company ultimately secured the documentation to export 1,050 pounds of strawberries, which are Santa Barbara County's largest agricultural commodity.
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The culture that produces baby-killing formula requires safety certs for foreign BERRIES..?
That is rich, I must say.
They killed our dogs too!
Think strawberry farmers in Santa Barbara County are happy.
Trump 2020
To the Chinese government’s credit, they did catch and execute people for doing things like this ... although I have no idea if the people they executed were actually culpable for the acts.
This will end badly.
We lost our precious doggie to intentionally added melamine to dog food ingredients... from china.
There is no forgetting this.
Huh, waitll they start in in HK
:(
And sulfates in their sheetrock sickened hundreds of thousands of people and forced them to replace all the sheetrock in their homes.
1,000 pounds of strawberries is nothing. The Chinese have entered strawberry production, so hopefully this will get the U.S. a foothold in the Chinese market. For these to arrive fresh, they had to have been flown over. Pretty good carbon footprint per berry.
Here are the California production stats for 2017 for the top ten products. Note strawberries is #4!
Dairy Products, Milk — $6.56 billion
Grapes — $5.79 billion
Almonds — $5.60 billion
Strawberries — $3.10 billion
Cattle and Calves — $2.53 billion
Lettuce — $2.41 billion
Walnuts — $1.59 billion
Tomatoes — $1.05 billion
Pistachios — $1.01 billion
Broilers — $939 million
Strawberry fun facts:
Strawberries are not berries. They actually are an example of an “aggregate fruit”, forming from a flower that has many ovaries; the ovary being the part of the flower that eventually develops and ripens into a fruit. Once the ovaries are pollinated, the ovaries will swell and eventually form the strawberry as we think of it.
As noted, strawberries form from a flower that has many ovaries. This makes them a complex fruit, much like blackberries or raspberries. Actual berries, though, are what are known as “simple fruits”, meaning they form from a flower that has only one ovary, such as grapes.
I ordered some replacement water filters for my Keurig coffee maker on Amazon. The product name led me to believe it was a genuine Keurig part, but I received some Chinese knock-offs. People complain about the activated carbon making the water gray.
Remembering things like the horrible dog food problems (sorry about the loss of your precious doggie - I cannot imagine), I returned the filters. No Chinese food or water product is getting into my home.
multiple ovaries, eh?
lots of Democratic “men” would love to have them!
and they can get them free under Obama’s communist medical system>...hopefully hopefully President Trump will find a way to close that horrid thing down!
i used to pick some of those strawberries
not fun
The Chinese can get into agriculture all they want.
They have less arable land than we do...
And flooding the US with fentanyl
Wow, what a reminder. I picked strawberries a few summers, growing up in Bremerton.
IIRC, they paid $0.25 a flat (six baskets). My biggest haul was $4.25 one day. Bought a nice fishing reel that week.
Lots of illegals working the fields, few potapotties ... and yummy berries and lots of sitting time after - bring ur own TP.
Strawberries from California are like their Politicians... nothing inside. A Florida strawberry is solid and it isn’t hollow. Florida (Plant City) is better...
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