UPDATE: Zespri may need to ditch or repackage 1.7M kiwifruit potentially contaminated by oil leak

UPDATE: Zespri may need to ditch or repackage 1.7M kiwifruit potentially contaminated by oil leak
Fiona Rotherham
(Adds COO comment and more detail) By Fiona Rotherham April 8 (BusinessDesk) - Kiwifruit marketer Zespri International says it may need to ditch or repackage 1.7 million trays of kiwifruit it has put on precautionary hold after it was potentially affected by an oil leak in packaging. Of the fruit being held back from customers, one million trays were still in New Zealand packhouses while 750,000 trays are on board ships in the first shipment of the season bound for Japan and Taiwan. Small deposits of mechanical lubricant have been f...