Company denies ‘sweet deal’ that will import sugar cane from countries with lower employment and environmental standards.

WHEN asked whether US food standards would ever be accepted in post-Brexit Britain, the unequivocal response from Cabinet Minister Michael Gove was “over my dead body”.

The decisions made in these trade talks will define the health of the UK’s population as well as the country’s environment and economy for years to come.

Chlorinated chicken is just the start. The government intends to rip up food standards, public services and public protections.

An open letter from joint CEOs Miriam Turner and Hugh Knowles to the Department of Trade on possible trade deals with the US.

BORDER checks between Scotland, England and Wales could be required because of varying food standards after Brexit, academics have warned.

Soil Association raises concerns over chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef.

Analysis finds changes such as removal of blanket ban on hormone-disrupting chemicals. / The UK has been accused of “silently eroding” key environmental and human health protections in the Brexit-inspired rush to convert thousands of pages of European Union pesticide policy into British law.

EU countries voted on Friday for a near-total ban on insecticides blamed for killing off bee populations, in what campaigners called a “beacon of hope” for the winged insects. /

Fantastic news as countries across the European Union – including the UK – vote to ban the outdoor use of 3 bee-harming pesticides.

Wanting to forge new trading relationships after Brexit and securing them are two very different things.

Brexit fears prompt more than 50 firms to move registrations away from the UK.

Big firms want Donald Trump to play hard ball over the NHS, food quality and consumer rights.

They want to tear up our green regulations so they can plunder and pollute the environment for profit.

Analysis from EU’s scientific risk assessors finds neonicotinoids pose a serious danger to all bees, making total field ban highly likely

The world’s most widely used insecticides will be banned from all fields within six months, to protect both wild and honeybees that are vital to crop pollination.

UK is ‘moving from a situation where we are a key player in all of this to an almost passive bystander with much less control over what goes onto the shelves’, says Prospect chief. / Harmful chemicals including bee-killing pesticides, skin irritants and hormone disruptors could be allowed into the UK following Brexit, experts have cautioned.