How will food manufacturers ensure food safety post-Brexit?
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Paul Lerigo asks whether UK food manufacturers will continue to abide by existing food safety standards even after the UK leaves the EU at the end of the year.
On 1 January 2021, the transition period that is intended to smooth the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union will come to an end. At that point, vast swathes of EU law will either be replaced by new UK laws, or will be kept on as ‘retained EU law’ within the UK’s domestic legal framework, pending attention from the British government.
At the current time of writing, no free trade agreement has been reached between the UK and the EU, and if this were still the case as 2021 begins, the UK’s trade with the EU, and other nations with whom there is no trade deal, would switch to World Trade Organisation terms.