Now UK may avoid chlorinated chicken: Joe Biden ‘will rip up Donald Trump’s post-Brexit trade template and ditch demands for the UK to lower its food standards’ Sources said Mr Biden will switch away from Mr Trump’s plan for a boutique deal Trans-Pacific trade partnership where high food standards would be maintained Would spare Boris … Read more
Ministers have come under fire for using arcane parliamentary rules to block an attempt to prevent poor-quality food imports like chlorinated chicken in a UK-US trade deal. The Government is using an old-fashioned procedure to block an amendment to the Agricultural Bill when it comes before MPs tomorrow. It would give new, stronger powers to … Read more
Three-quarters of the public oppose the sale of chlorinated chicken in Britain, a major Government-backed study said yesterday. And nearly nine out of ten are against any new food trade deal that allows hormone-treated beef. The country’s deep reluctance to accept meat they believe is produced to worrying standards was confirmed by one of the … Read more
Chlorine-washed chicken is NOT on the table: Trade Secretary Liz Truss insists a ban on controversial US farm produce is ‘already in law’ and will not be changed Activists warned a post-Brexit US trade deal could let in chlorinated chicken Miss Truss said a ban on controversial US farm produce was ‘already in law’ She … Read more
Boris Johnson has overruled Cabinet Minister Liz Truss in a crucial battle over the future of British farming – siding with his fiancee Carrie Symonds instead. The Prime Minister last week vowed to stem a feared flood of sub-standard American products into the UK by insisting controversial foods such as hormone-fed beef and chlorinated chicken … Read more
‘It would not get on the lowest rung of our food standards ladder’: Farmers’ union chief slams government plot to allow chlorinated chicken and other poor-quality US imports in to UK in post-Brexit Trump trade deal Scheme would allow heavy duties on low-quality imports like chlorine chicken But better quality imports would face lighter duties … Read more
Ministers plot to allow chlorinated chicken and other poor-quality US imports in to UK supermarkets under ‘dual tariff scheme’ as they seek quick trade deal with Donald Trump Scheme would allow heavy duties on low-quality imports like chlorine chicken But better quality imports would face lighter duties if the US agreed to terms Trade Secretary … Read more
Chlorinated chicken will stay off the menu in the UK after Brexit amid fears American farm produce is made to lower standards Trade Secretary is to publish a blueprint for trade talks with the US on Monday Chlorinated chicken will not be imported into the UK after Brexit, ministers said ‘Opening our ports to food’ which … Read more