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AHDB Article: Assurance of imported grain
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<blockquote data-quote="wanton dwarf" data-source="post: 7873493" data-attributes="member: 5903"><p>What a load of waffle.</p><p></p><p>The simple truth is that grain imported into the UK can be grown using banned Pesticides. AIC & Red Tractor KNOW this and they DO NOT test for banned pesticides.</p><p></p><p>I doubt most imported grain would pass Red Tractor Assurance. Blatant double standards.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>"These assurance guarantees are required for the rest of the supply chain to be confident in using the raw material and on selling of the final processed product."</strong></p><p></p><p>The assurance scheme doesn't involve any "Confidence". The only thing the assurance scheme does is control the price of food traded over the UK farm gate putting the UK farmer in a uncompetative position compared to imports.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>"“Farm Assurance: The Seller is responsible for ensuring the goods supplied against the contract meet the requirements of a recognised crop assurance scheme and membership of such scheme remains valid through the movement period."</strong></p><p></p><p>Farm assurance doesn't guarantee that the food sold is fit for eating. In fact, there doesn't have to be any food involved at all.</p><p>Farm assurance doesn't guarantee that the food supplied ex farm meets specification.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>"Indicative costs for an individual sample of grain are as follows:"</strong></p><p></p><p>Large organisations have their own laboratory and staff. They won't face itemised sample costs.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>"The costs of importing grain goes beyond the price of individual samples and tests. The total cost of importing will also include fees paid to superintendents, port dues, customs agents, insurance and paperwork as well as costs incurred for participation in assurance schemes."</strong></p><p></p><p>They admit imported grain is below UK assurance standards and DO NOT test for banned pesiticides. Yet they insult UK farmers saying imported grain is of a higher standard. Fudge Off.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>"These contractual tests will be required on both export cargoes leaving the UK as well as imported cargoes into the UK. Therefore creating an average £ per tonne cost for testing would not be representative of the potential costs."</strong></p><p></p><p>I used to write Business software for large corporations. I developed the production line software for Gerber Foods about 25 years ago. At that time the costs were known EXACTLY for each product run - which went down the level of importing fruit juice from South America 1 year ago. This is done by matching "Purchase Orders" to invoices and "Works Orders" to processes - which will include costs associated by machinery, maintenance, operators etc all with associated costs.</p><p></p><p>In other words they know exactly what the average costs are of everything all the time and will have records going back for years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wanton dwarf, post: 7873493, member: 5903"] What a load of waffle. The simple truth is that grain imported into the UK can be grown using banned Pesticides. AIC & Red Tractor KNOW this and they DO NOT test for banned pesticides. I doubt most imported grain would pass Red Tractor Assurance. Blatant double standards. [B]"These assurance guarantees are required for the rest of the supply chain to be confident in using the raw material and on selling of the final processed product."[/B] The assurance scheme doesn't involve any "Confidence". The only thing the assurance scheme does is control the price of food traded over the UK farm gate putting the UK farmer in a uncompetative position compared to imports. [B]"“Farm Assurance: The Seller is responsible for ensuring the goods supplied against the contract meet the requirements of a recognised crop assurance scheme and membership of such scheme remains valid through the movement period."[/B] Farm assurance doesn't guarantee that the food sold is fit for eating. In fact, there doesn't have to be any food involved at all. Farm assurance doesn't guarantee that the food supplied ex farm meets specification. [B]"Indicative costs for an individual sample of grain are as follows:"[/B] Large organisations have their own laboratory and staff. They won't face itemised sample costs. [B] "The costs of importing grain goes beyond the price of individual samples and tests. The total cost of importing will also include fees paid to superintendents, port dues, customs agents, insurance and paperwork as well as costs incurred for participation in assurance schemes."[/B] They admit imported grain is below UK assurance standards and DO NOT test for banned pesiticides. Yet they insult UK farmers saying imported grain is of a higher standard. Fudge Off. [B]"These contractual tests will be required on both export cargoes leaving the UK as well as imported cargoes into the UK. Therefore creating an average £ per tonne cost for testing would not be representative of the potential costs."[/B] I used to write Business software for large corporations. I developed the production line software for Gerber Foods about 25 years ago. At that time the costs were known EXACTLY for each product run - which went down the level of importing fruit juice from South America 1 year ago. This is done by matching "Purchase Orders" to invoices and "Works Orders" to processes - which will include costs associated by machinery, maintenance, operators etc all with associated costs. In other words they know exactly what the average costs are of everything all the time and will have records going back for years. [/QUOTE]
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