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5 Oct, 7 tweets, 2 min read
Steve talks bananas. Let me add one thing (short thread)
Another reason why we have fruit quality standards is to facilitate trade. Traders need to talk to each other and speak the same language.
For that reason, there actually is a working party on agricultural quality standards - under the banner of UNECE.
They define food quality standards. Here, for example, is the definition of extra class apples.
If you are really into apples, here’s the link to the whole UNECE standard unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/…
UNECE has a lot of these standards on all sorts of fruit. But not on... you guessed it... bananas. Honi soit qui mal y pense.
unece.org/trade/agr/stan…
And of course: no trade in bananas thread can end without this:

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