The biggest challenges the food industry currently faces from Brexit include delays caused by the impenetrability of paperwork , the shortage of vets and customs officials and dealing with the island of Ireland.
That s according to trade bodies responding to questions from MPs in the latest meeting of the parliamentary committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union.
Ian Wright, chief executive of the Food & Drink Federation (FDF), said the new era after the end of the Brexit transition period would entail a complete overhaul of the UK-EU supply chain. What s going to end up happening here is that unless the deal changes in some material way, we re going to see the reengineering of almost all the EU-UK and GB-NI supply chains over the next six to nine months.
| UPDATED: 06:49, Thu, Jan 14, 2021
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Boris Johnson has said there are teething problems regarding trade between Britain and Northern Ireland in the wake of exiting the Brexit transition period. However, the Prime Minister told the Commons Liaison Committee that things were running smoothly . Former Labour minister Hilary Benn questioned Mr Johnson on whether he would extend the three-month grace period for Export Health Certificates for trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.