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Vegetables are being left to rot in fields due to a 'chronic' crop picker and driver shortage, as recruitment bosses urged UK officials to let in ten times more foreign workers to solve the crisis.
Nick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association, said beef producers were shipping supplies to Ireland by ferry for cutting and packing before re-importing them.
The Leicester-based manufacturer said products including multipacks of ready salted Walkers, Quavers and Wotsits had been affected amid a wider crisis across the food supply chain.
A warning has been sent to MP's over a concern of lack of British produced turkeys at Christmas.
Graeme Dear, chairman of the British Poultry Council, warned that turkeys may have to be imported from Europe due to shortages.