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Marketing Standards
• To facilitate trade under fair conditions,• To keep products of unsatisfactory quality off
the market,• To guide production to meet consumer demand,• Help maintain the profitability of production.
Crown copyright 2000
0 50 100 km
•London•Hayes
•Exeter
•Chorley
•Newmarket•Coventry
•Leeds
•Tunbridge Wells
HMI Regions
•Cardiff
63 staff in total
Plus 7 in Scotland and 7
in Northern Ireland
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Major Ports
Heathrow• •Sheerness & Thamesport•Dover
Southampton•
•Felixstowe
•Portsmouth
•Tilbury
UK Market for fruit and vegetables
• Fruit:• Total trade – 3,704,000 tonnes• UK production – 392,000 tonnes (11%)
• Vegetables:• Total trade – 4,453,000 tonnes• UK production – 2,284,000 tonnes (51%)
Imports through Ports - 2008
Seaports Number Airports Number
Sheerness 13022 Heathrow 102367
Felixstowe 8919 Manchester 1425
Tilbury 10318 Gatwick 357
Thamesport 4797 Stansted 2255
Dover 3439 Birmingham 453
Portsmouth 1316 Luton 23
Liverpool 538
Southampton 657
Bristol 3449
Inland - CFSP 5912
Seaports
Airports
Imports• Peach,• Internet based system,• Notification required for quality and phyto-sanitory
checks,• Around 130000 applications per year, up to 4
consignments per application,• Risk system within Peach picks high risk
consignments.• Automatic Licence Verification clears consignments
without need to print certificates, • Third Country Approved Inspection Services
Imports
Action taken at import - 20094%
9%
82%
3% 2%
Downgrade
Outgrade
Labelling
Downgrade & labelling
Outgrade &labelling
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Western International• •New Covent Garden
Southampton•
•Birmingham
•Bristol •Spitalfields
•Gateshead
•Liverpool•Manchester
Cardiff•
•Glasgow
Wholesale Markets
Wholesale Markets
Retail
Around 12000 retail traders
Retail
Training
Training
• Twice yearly “refresher” courses for established inspectors.
• Initial training courses for new inspectors.• Training on request for UK trade and
overseas inspectorates.• International harmonisation meetings.
Other work areas
• Quarantine pests:• Checking at import for:• Monilinia and Alternaria on top and stone fruit• Guignardia, Elsinoe and Xanthomonas on citrus• Fruit flies of genera – Anastrepha, Ceratitis,
Bactrocera, Dacus and Rhagoletis.
Other work areas
• Prosecution:• Last resort; approximately 4 per year.• Problem traders are moved to an “amber”
status with view to improvements.• If no improvement they move to “red”
status and prosecution proceedings.
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