A Tasmanian flower producer wants country of origin labelling on imported blooms, which account for about half of the Australian market. Australian flower growers struggling to compete with cheap imports have been calling for change for years.
Pip Sadler, who with her brother Rob Sadler runs an extensive flower operation at Flowerdale in north-west Tasmania, said if food was required to have a label indicating where it was grown, so should fresh flowers.
"Who's picked the product? How old is that person? What were they paid? And how have the flowers been chemically treated, let alone the thousands of air miles imported flowers rack up," she said. Ms Sadler said mandatory labelling would allow Australian customers to choose where their money went, and what sort of labour standards, environmental impact and carbon footprint they were prepared to accept.
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