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UK flower industry thrown into chaos by new Brexit border checks
Firms said food and plant checks and Latin names causing costly delays with lorries waiting hours in first week of post-EU regime
Of all the effects of Brexit, probably the least anticipated was that flower exporters and customs officials would have to learn Latin.
But that is one of the problems that confronted British businesses in the first week after the government introduced physical checks on some food and plants from the EU.
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