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Fig Roll Crisis goes mainstream

Tuesday 22 Apr 2008 Reporter: Nicey

		Back at the beginning of April NCOTAASD brought you news of the unfolding fig roll crisis across the country. The situation has now become so serious that its made several of the national daily papers, and we have spent most of last week doing radio interviews on the situation.
Although there have been sporadic sightings of fig rolls, these are mainly due to buffer stocks being run down, as the last few fig rolls are flushed from the supply chain. Despite our earlier conjecture that all the Fig Roll machines had simply "gone wrong", it seems that the other possibility that a shortage of figs was behind it was the correct reason. The vast majority of the figs used to make our fig rolls are imported from Turkey. Last summer whilst we wallowed around in the rain and gloom Turkey and other Mediterranean countries had a scorching hot drought. This badly affected the fig harvest. In fact the Guardian reported on Friday that a species of pollenating wasp which attends to the fig flowers was laid low by the conditions hence the poor yield. The situation has been compounded by the a FSA finding that some batches of the heat stressed figs are showing above permitted levels of a naturally occurring fungal toxin. Whilst these levels are not dramatically high it is recommending that manufacturers re-test all their figs. Jacob's have indicated that they will be sourcing Figs from the USA and should have production back to normal by the month end. It seems likely that other manufacturers will also follow suit. Hopefully the Turkish fig growers can bounce back.