British chips and cakes could be BINNED under Keir Starmer's Brexit reset
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Oven chips and cakes could be forced into the bin rather than put on shop shelves under a potential post-Brexit food trade deal.Discussions over the deal began last May as part of a sanitary and phytosanitary agreement - a bid to simplify trade for farmers and food producers while reducing bureaucratic burdens and export costs.But industry bodies have now warned the deal would require the UK food sector to adopt more than 400 EU rule changes.This alignment could render food already planted, harvested or frozen unsellable if it was produced using pesticides that Brussels has since prohibited.
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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Karen Betts, the chief executive of the Food and Drink Federation, highlighted the lengthy production timelines that make this particularly problematic."If you look at potatoes going into oven chips or crisps, it's a three-year cycle from planting your potato to it appearing in an oven chip in a supermarket freezer," she said.
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