Cherry Exports The U.S. Transportation Security Administration met with shippers last month in Yakima, Washington, to explain how a congressionally mandated bill will affect 2009 cherry exports, as well as to learn how the agency may be able to make practical adjustments to the regulations to help the fruit industry meet the new requirements. According to Robert Shaffer, Jr., a cargo security inspector for TSA, by the 2009 season, in 50 percent of all cherry shipments on passenger aircraft, every box will need to be screened. By 2010, every box will have to be inspected. Shaffer emphasized that to make […]