Re: [Debconf-discuss] Cheese and Wine BoF
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 01:41:42PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:
> > also sprach MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> [2007.05.29.1040 +0200]:
> > > Unless there's a good cheese importer nearby. That could still be
> > > good, as visitors will know their region's cheeses better than us.
> >
> > Unfortunately, it's not possible to buy uninfected/undeadly cheese
> > in the origin country; you have to go abroad and buy it with an
> > importer to get the safe stuff. Yeah, makes sense.
>
> As I wrote, I don't much like this rule, but it's there and we need to
> deal with it. I wish the DEFRA FAQ would explain how/why food
> importers work, but it doesn't. I'd send them feedback if their
> feedback form actually worked...
>
> I'm guessing that the idea is that if the food is found to be deadly,
> then gov.uk can issue counter-measures down the regulated import chain
> and don't have to record who brought what into the country and track
> them all the time. Even though some of our police are actually
> starting to use unmanned black helicopters, as reported in
> http://www.merseyside.police.uk/html/news/news/may/cd21-05b-police.htm
> they don't track all movements of every visitor to the UK. Yet.
>
In .au which has similar restrictions, the logic is that it's much much
easier to audit importers of whom you might have 5 or 10, rather than
the zillions of tourists who come in every year.
Cheers,
Pasc
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