With the EU on the precipice of new Listeria regulations, Bethan Grylls reports on Chilled Food Association’s most recent webinar examining the potential avenues this could take and the repercussions.
The Talent Poole hears from four food figureheads this month to discuss how leaders can embrace diversity beyond legal obligations and definitions and be mindful of the way we think and operate.
New European Commission (EC) proposals to change Listeria monocytogenes legislation threaten food safety and risk creating waste, according to the Chilled Food Association (CFA).
By Harry Holmes2021-04-30T12:31:00+01:00
Food exporters have spent a total of 58 years filling out export health certificates so far this year as a result of the new post-Brexit trade rules, a leading trade body has said.
Export health certificates are required when shipping live animals or animal products such as meat and fish from Great Britain to the EU, Northern Ireland, or any other third country.
Karin Goodburn, director general of the Chilled Food Association, said official figures show the UK has issued 89,000 certificates so far this year, up from 806 over the same period last year – a 110-fold increase.
Some EU food makers will give up on Britain, warns industry chief
The boss of the Chilled Food Association says European companies may stop exporting to the UK when border checks are enforced
29 April 2021 • 2:56pm
The UK government has delayed imposing post-Brexit checks on food imports coming from the European Union until October 1
Credit: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
Some European manufacturers will give up on exporting food products to Britain once the UK starts to enforce checks at the border this autumn, a top trade association chief has said.
Karin Goodburn, director-general of the Chilled Food Association, said continental food manufacturers have been put off after witnessing British companies’ struggles with the new regulations.