April 28 2009 -
Iranian authorities have discovered that the citrus fruit pomelos on sale in the country were being sold marked as Israeli-grown Jaffa sweeties. The supply of the fruit was stopped at once, and the authorities have vowed to catch the offenders.
The fruit pomelit, or the Jaffa sweetie, is a pomelo-grapefruit hybrid and is popular worldwide. The fraud was exposed when BBC reported that the pomelit fruit currently being marketed under the Israeli brand name Jaffa were actually Chinese fruit.