Practical notes for people importing fruit and vegetables — how quick freezing works, what grading terms mean, which certifications a buyer actually needs, and what the shipping paperwork involves. Written from the packhouse side of the trade.
Frozen fruit is the one product where quality was settled months before you saw it. What to specify, what to ask, and what “quick frozen” commits…
Every frozen supplier says “IQF”. Far fewer can tell you what happens inside the tunnel, or why it decides whether your strawberries…
Fresh produce cannot be improved after harvest. Everything from the moment of picking is a slower or faster decline — and the single biggest…
Grading is not quality snobbery. It is the language two strangers use to agree, in advance, on what will be inside a container that neither of them…
The produce is rarely the hard part. What decides whether a first shipment becomes a programme is the specification, the paperwork and the payment…
Suppliers send logo sheets. Buyers need to know which of those logos are a legal requirement, which are the price of entry to a retailer, and which…
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