"That's partly due to the farming methods, the picking, the packing, the distribution in terms of general logistics, " he adds.

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There was a pilot investigation program, which, among other things, traced a 1904 fruit-decay crisis in California to cuts in the fruit from stem clippers and the fingernails of handlers (and, along the way, introduced modern packing methods industry-wide).

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