Frozen berries scare prompts industry to urge “eat local"

Ashley Walmsley
June 6 2017 - 12:00pm
GO LOCAL: The Australian raspberry and blackberry association is urging consumers to put their faith in locally grown produce rather than imported products after another hepatitis A scare due to frozen berries.
GO LOCAL: The Australian raspberry and blackberry association is urging consumers to put their faith in locally grown produce rather than imported products after another hepatitis A scare due to frozen berries.

LAST week's recall of Creative Gourmet frozen berries over another hepatitis A contamination has prompted the local industry to highlight the quality of Australian produce.

Ashley Walmsley

Ashley Walmsley

Editor, Good Fruit & Vegetables

Ashley Walmsley is the editor of ACM's only national, fresh produce magazine, Good Fruit & Vegetables, while also covering horticulture stories for the agricultural papers and websites. He also writes the weekly, The Ringer, column in the Qld Country Life.

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