Britain is being forced to dump food worth millions every month because it has been “contaminated” by illegal immigrants breaking into lorries at Calais.
Shops are rejecting entire truckloads of deliveries over hygiene fears as food bosses warned that the industry has lost £10 million of produce already.
Some drivers are taking detours of 100 miles into Holland to avoid gangs of would-be asylum seekers trying to sneak into the UK in the back of trucks.
Freight Transport Association chief James Hookham said: “We have some lorries being surrounded by dozens, if not hundreds of people, trying locks, attempting to get into containers, stowing themselves underneath or even slitting open curtain-sided vehicles to get in. It’s chaos.”
About 3,000 migrants are now camped out near the northern French port – double the number a year ago.
In a stark warning, Fresh Produce Consortium boss Nigel Jenney said: “The situation has got increasingly worse.
“Historically this would have been an exceptional incident. Now it is becoming much more prevalent.”
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