Zespri puts hold on 1.7 mln kiwifruit trays affected by oil leak in packaging

Zespri puts hold on 1.7 mln kiwifruit trays affected by oil leak in packaging
Fiona Rotherham
By Fiona Rotherham April 8 (BusinessDesk) - Kiwifruit marketer Zespri has put a precautionary hold on 1.7 million trays of kiwifruit potentially affected by an oil leak in the packaging. The fruit is still within Zespri’s distribution system rather than in public hands and is both in New Zealand and one offshore market. Small deposits of mechanical lubricant have been found on a number of kiwifruit pocket packs which hold the fruit in place in the single-layer trays made by a Chinese manufacturing plant.  The lubricant has only been id...