{"id":530340,"date":"2010-04-16T16:25:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T20:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/eyjafjallajkull-uk-food-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-16T16:25:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T20:25:19","slug":"eyjafjallajokull-ash-cloud-could-cripple-uk-food-imports-within-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/530340","title":{"rendered":"Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull Ash Cloud Could Cripple UK Food Imports Within Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bc8c6aa7f8b9a6d1fef0700-300-225\/europe-flight-map.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Europe Flight Map\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ash of Eyjafjallaj&ouml;kull could have a severe impact on UK food imports, with foreign fruit and vegetables like pineapple and baby sweet corn already seeing shortages, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2010\/apr\/16\/flight-ban-shortages-uk-supermarkets\">according to The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other produce under threat includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2010\/apr\/16\/flight-ban-shortages-uk-supermarkets\">lettuce, grapes, and asparagus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Flights in and out of the UK continue to be halted. British Airways maintains that flights will not start moving again tomorrow, as <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNewsBreak\">all Saturday flights in and out of London have been canceled<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ryanair-volcano-monday-2010-4\">Ryanair<\/a> has canceled flights until Monday.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/category\/volcano\">Follow our continuing coverage of the volcano ash crisis here &gt;<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/eyjafjallajkull-uk-food-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/nrS8ylVMFdw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ash of Eyjafjallaj&ouml;kull could have a severe impact on UK food imports, with foreign fruit and vegetables like pineapple and baby sweet corn already seeing shortages, according to The Guardian. Other produce under threat includes lettuce, grapes, and asparagus. Flights in and out of the UK continue to be halted. British Airways maintains that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}