Environment Secretary tells BBC that the “legal barriers to the import” of chlorinated chicken and hormone treated beef will “stay in place” and that the Government will “hold the line” on this even if the US/Trump insists on acceptance during US-UK trade talks...
what we know from those leaked technical US-UK trade discussions -raised in context of Veterinary Equivalence agreement, and in presentation, by US officials that “unscientific approach” of the EU to “Pathogen Reduction Treatments” “is not appropriate”
NB “Pathogen Reduction Treatment” = chlorinated chicken and has been the subject of longstanding US-EU tension/ WTO complaints on food standards, after EU, and therefore UK ban since 1997 fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R…
