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Re:The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada by chaostheory on Friday October 03, 2014 @11:55PM (#8408720)
> They also lose out on quality control issues which could be a major issue.

I don't feel that this is an issue in this case. Hallat only buys pre-packaged foods and I'm sure that Canada's food regulatory bodies don't allow the sale of expired food.

"Pretty much anything I can buy in the U.S., I can legally import into Canada. There are permits required for meat, seafood and dairy. We stick to vegetarian packaged nonperishable items."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/30/217210915/bag....

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Re:The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada by imanaccount247 on Saturday October 04, 2014 @11:47AM (#8409739)
>I'm sure that Canada's food regulatory bodies don't allow the sale of expired food.

I don't think they sell anything that needs an expiration date. Best before dates are not expiration dates: http://www.inspection.gc.ca/food/information-for-consumers/f...

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