Israel stands to lose between $20 million to $30 million in citrus sales as a result of some poisoned oranges that were found two weeks ago in several European cities, Knesseter Gad Yaacobi, chairman of the Knesset’s Economic Committee, said Sunday following a meeting with Citrus Marketing Board officials. There is, he reported, a considerable reduction in orders for Israeli citrus fruit from Britain and West Germany, two countries in which poisoned oranges were found. The other country, in which five children suffered food poisoning after eating some oranges, was Holland.
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