Costly medicines and pus in milk: a Brexit trade deal that’ll make you sick
The wealthy can avoid this crap and they won't be serving it in any HoC restaurant or bar
BUT for the rest of the country …
UK farmers will follow suit or go broke.
The US agribusiness want to dodge labelling country of origin too, to make it difficult to know what crap we are consuming
and their definition of free range, organic etc is much laxer than in the EU
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/10/medicine-pus-milk-brexit-trade-chlorinated-chicken
In its report, the US government is clear that it hates the EU’s food policies.
It wants to export chlorinated chicken (meat rinsed in antimicrobial wash as an alternative to keeping and killing animals in healthy conditions),
and meat from animals stuffed with hormones, steroids, ractopamine, and endocrine disrupters (chemicals that mess with animals’ hormones and can cause cancer and birth defects).
The list goes on, with the US unhappy about the EU’s “cautious” approach to approving genetically modified goods,chemical flavourings in food and the amount of pesticide residue allowed in fruits and nuts.
They even think the amount of “somatic cells” allowed in milk in the EU is too restrictive.
The US allows more white blood cells in milk than anywhere else in the world, even though this often indicates infection in the cow
https://www.sustainweb.org/news/feb18USS_foodpoisoning/
Figures suggest that the percentage of people who fall ill with food poisoning annually is ten times higher in the US than the UK.
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"The US Centre of Disease Control and Prevention reports around 380 deaths in the US each year attributed to foodborne salmonella poisoning.
The most recent epidemiological lab data from Public Health England shows no deaths in England and Wales from salmonella between 2005 and 2015.
Salmonella food poisoning is most commonly caused by consumption of contaminated food of animal origin, such as beef, chicken, milk, fish or eggs"