UK Firm on Food Safety Despite US Tariff Pressures | Politics
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The UK asserts it will not compromise food safety standards to lower tariffs on exports to the US, despite imposed tariffs under the Trump administration. Business minister Jonathan Reynolds emphasizes that looser standards remain non-negotiable as part of trade talks with the US.
  • LimpRimbleEnglish
    8·
    16 days ago

    Canada had (has?) a similar problem:

    The breakdown in negotiations was mostly due to Canada’s insistence on the UK loosening its food safety regulations, according to several people familiar with the matter.

    Canada’s agriculture and food processing market is geared toward exporting to the US, where practices such as chemical carcass-washing and hormone-injected beef and pork are commonplace. In the EU, and the UK by virtue of its former membership of the bloc, such practices are banned.
    https://lemmy.ca/comment/8322100

    • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
      3·
      15 days ago

      Do you think it is possible that Canada will increase its own food standards for the European market? Obviously over time. Such that the only people eating chlorine chicken are Americans?