Illegal immigrants threaten imports of fruits and vegetables in Calais

#Calais #TheresaMay #illegalimmigrants While illegal immigrants pose innumerable problems for Britain, the newest to get added is the import of fruit and vegetables through Calais – fresh foods are considered to be contaminated if a singly immigrant is there in the containers or lorries that carry the fresh farm products. Accordingly, steps are taken to destroy the complete load of the truck or lorry.
If this continues, Britain will face a serious shortage of supplies of fresh food because entire truck-loads of imported fruit and vegetables are being destroyed if a migrant is found inside a transportation vehicle.
Home Secretary Theresa May has agreed to hold an urgent meeting with the ‘increasingly worried’ food industry on order to evolve methods of better protecting imported food from stowaways. During the Christmas period, large quantities of vegetables destined for supermarkets and other retailers had to be ‘condemned’ for this reason.
Incidentally, many migrants climb on to the lorries as they are being loaded – sometimes as far away as Spain – and, many others sneak aboard later in a journey. But, the fact remains that once such a character is detected, either at the port of Calais or in the UK, the cargo is deemed ‘contaminated’, no longer fit for human consumption and destroyed.
Unless this is checked, it would lead to shortage as well as increase in prices due to the wastages.