TSA's Fruit Screening Could Hurt Local Growers

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Story Published: Apr 10, 2009 at 6:21 PM PDT

By Sade Malloy

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Yakima -- TSA is cracking down on safety and that means screening cherries shipped on planes.

As of this past February, half of the cargo on passenger planes needs to be checked for bombs or security threats. It's a new requirement that local shippers are worried about. "It's refrigerated cargo you don't want it to sit there for a long time, you want it to keep moving on so you don't have problems with the quality of fruit," says Donna Feltrup,L & M Northwest.

The Yakima Valley Growers and Shippers say more than two million boxes of cherries were exported last year. Cargo planes are not being checked.

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