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Brexit: despatches from the downside – No 24
01/03/2024
In this week's Brexit downsides, extra food labelling costing up to £250mn, a huge drop in overseas students, veterinary shortages in NI, and more.
Brexit: taking food safety with us
13/03/2023
Food businesses are waiting on tenterhooks to see what changes the UK Government will make to regulations and standards following Brexit. But how are food safety bodies such as the FSA planning to mitigate industry pressures?
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) released the first of what will now be an annual report.
The NFU warned Britain had been left for years without proper checks and balances on food imports from EU.
Campaigners hail dramatic government climbdown in battle to protect post-Brexit food standards
01/11/2020
Watchdog to finally get teeth to block chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef imports
British food safety and competition regulators are “struggling to recruit and retain the skills they need to regulate effectively” post-Brexit, according to a Westminster committee of MPs.
The Commons Public Accounts committee has warned that regulators are ‘struggling to recruit and retain the skills they need to regulate effectively’. / Recruitment issues are hampering the ability of UK regulators to function post-Brexit, MPs have warned.
Contaminated food ‘will be a problem if EU rules are ditched’, Food Standards Agency says
01/11/2022
People are at risk of eating contaminated food if Rishi Sunak presses ahead with a deadline for scrapping EU regulations, the safety watchdog has warned.
Post-Brexit regulations have set back the UK's edible insect industry by around two years, one grower estimated.
When the UK officially left the EU in early 2020, no transition had been agreed for the edible insects industry and, while traders in Europe were able to continue, UK traders were not.
Failure to impose post-Brexit border controls causing risk to food standards, watchdog warns
27/06/2022
The government’s failure to impose full import controls on food coming from the EU since Brexit has exposed the UK to increased risk of sub-standard products reaching the shelves, a new report has warned.
Food safety in a post-Brexit UK
07/11/2022
Erik Millstone examines the precarious nature of food safety in the UK after the Brexit referendum and points out that prevention is always better than cure.
While all eyes were on No 10 on Tuesday as Rishi Sunak became the UK’s new prime minister, down the road MPs were debating the Brexit Freedoms Bill – a piece of legislation that could have profound implications for public health and businesses alike.
Food shoppers are less protected due to Brexit and a failure to bring in safety checks at ports, watchdog warns
16/06/2022
FSA oversee food safety and assessments from the EU to the UK after Brexit. /
Delay on food checks from Europe until 2023 leaves families ‘less protected’.
NAO says no evidence of strategic thinking about funding needed for food safety
The Food Standards Agency has warned meat and poultry producers that a shortage of vets could impact their ability to operate in the run-up to the busy festive season.
Can someone tell the government Brexit has already happened? / The government has only now asked the Food Standards Agency to plan how it is going to protect public health and safety after Brexit – almost six months after the transition period for leaving the EU ended.
Authorities such as the Food Standards Agency (FSA) are struggling with a skills gap after the United Kingdom left the European Union, according to a report.
“We culled all our insects six months ago, and just kept a few for our own consumption.”
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has revealed it will be engaging with abattoir owners to help ease the shortage of veterinarians.
UK pours millions into preventing food crime after Brexit amid fears of ‘cheap imports that put health at risk’
21/08/2020
The cost to protect the UK market from cheap and illegal food imports has soared by 1000 per cent since 2015 as part of Government preparations for Brexit.
The Food Standards Agency described the current situation as "hand-to-mouth" when it came to recruiting and retaining vets in sufficient numbers.
UK regulators face struggle after Brexit as long-term plans may be ‘wasted effort’ watchdog warns
19/05/2022
Food safety is at risk because of skilled worker shortages and loss of access to vital data bases, a report says and experts’ ability to assess threats to public is being impeded by constraints.
Edible insects have been touted as a climate change friendly source of protein for the future, but UK traders are facing difficulties.
Industry laments a missed opportunity to put Britain at the forefront of a growing movement towards alternative protein.