Related for Bava Metzia 111:2

אמר רב יוסף אע"פ שמיקל רבי מאיר בפדיונו מחמיר הוא באכילתו דתניא לא התירו למכור דמאי אלא לסיטון בלבד ובעל הבית בין כך ובין כך צריך לעשר דברי ר' מאיר

— R. Joseph replied: Though R. Meir is more lenient in regard to its redemption, he is stricter in regard to the eating thereof.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Either he is stricter than the Rabbis (Tosaf.); or he is as strict in regard to demai as in respect of certain tithe. — Our Mishnah treats of the eating thereof. ');">3 For it has been taught: Only the wholesaler was permitted to sell demai,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Without first tithing it, for since it is known that a wholesaler buys from many people, including those who are lax in tithing, no person who is particular will eat of what the wholesaler sells without first tithing it. But a retailer must tithe demai before he sells it. ');">4

Tosefta Demai

They did not permit selling Demai except to a wholesale dealer (=סיטון, per Jastrow). A homeowner who sells both this and that (i.e., both large and small quantities, per Lieberman) needs to tithe, the words of Rabbi Meir. But the Sages say, one wholesale dealer and one homeowner are permitted to sell [Demai] and to send it to their friend, and give it to him as a present.

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