Insect-filled chocolates, rat hair noodles, and maggoty orange juice: The reality of a Brexit trade deal with Trump
The US wants to outlaw labels of origin, for food they export to us - to make it difficult to boycott
https://www.businessinsider.com/rat-hairs-and-maggots-may-warned-of-reality-of-us-brexit-trade-deal-2018-10?r=UK
Insect-filled chocolates, rat hair-infested noodles, and orange juice containing maggots are just some of the "horrors" UK consumers could be forced to accept
if post-Brexit Britain signs a wide-ranging trade deal with the USA.
In the US, producers adhere to a "Defect Levels Handbook,"
which sets out the maximum number of foreign bodies like maggots, insect fragments and mould that can be in food products before they are put on the market.
For example, US producers are allowed to include up to 30 insect fragments in a 100-gram jar of peanut butter;
as well as 11 rodent hairs in a 25-gram container of paprika;
or 3 milligrams of mammalian excreta (typically rat or mouse excrement) per each pound of ginger.
In the EU there are no allowable limits for foreign bodies in food products.
MPs have told Business Insider they are worried that a UK-US trade deal designed by Brexiteers could open the floodgates to contaminated food.
"Clearly, The Tories have some very unpleasant surprises for UK dinner tables if they have their way with a fast-track trade deal with the United States,"
Bill Esterson, Labour MP and Shadow Trade Minister, told BI.
"We know the Tories are keen on chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-fed beef
but they surely cannot expect that the British public will be happy to swallow these other horrors."
Caroline Lucas, ex-leader of the Green party and supporter of the People's Vote campaign, added:
"This is the gruesome reality of the US trade deal being touted by Liam Fox as one of the great benefits of leaving the EU."