Nordic strawberries under attack

Today's news brings alarm from northern Europe. In Finland, voles have done such damage to the strawberry crop that farmers are having to bring in (suppressing smirk here) Pygmy owls to attack the rodents. (See Pygmy owls drafted in to control unprecedented vole damage in Savo Province.)

Meanwhile, the threat in Sweden is that of imported strawberries. Swedish agricultural authorities are using isotope analysis to determine the authenticity of the strawberries. Suspicious samples are sent to Germany where they are inspected and detected.
It should be noted that "While the Board of Agriculture has never come across a confirmed case of the alleged strawberry fraud, the agency is taking no chances in its efforts to protect Swedish consumers."

The European Court of First Instance has made bogus strawberry detection more difficult. In the case of the smelly strawberry, the court denied a claim that different types of strawberries have unique smells and thus can be registered and protected.
So sayeth the Court:

Admittedly, ... the smell of strawberries did not make it possible to distinguish between the varieties of strawberry in a significant way in respect of all the different crops.

Update 9 June: Recent frosty nights damage berry crops, chicks die in nests