Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 17 March 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what quantity of fruit and vegetables was destroyed under EU arrangements in each of the last three years.
Latest data from the European Commission indicate that total produce withdrawn from the market in the EU fell from over 1.1 million tonnes in 2000–01 to 596,000 tonnes in 2001–02, and to 315,000 tonnes in 2002–03.
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