On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 01:41:42PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > also sprach MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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 _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
