Plant imports 'Russian roulette' after Defra crackdown

Europlants' Oscar Puig says the recent crisis at BCP Sevington, where lorry loads of plants are destroyed over suspected Pochazia shantungensis infestation, means they are "playing Russian roulette with each lorry" they bring in from Italy.

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