The UK government has insisted there will be no weakening of food standards as part of its trade deal with the United States.
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the agreement this past week.
A White House fact sheet said the deal will expand U.S. market access
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Only a quarter of British people trust food from the United States, according to a survey.
Research conducted online by YouGov with more than 3,500 adults across the United Kingdom in July and August looked at levels of trust in domestic and imported food.
Only 25 percent of British people
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A number of UK consumers could be willing to pay more to avoid food made using production methods common in the United States but banned in Europe.
Research from the School of Economics at the University of Kent, the University of Reading and IHS Markit, found that UK consumers highly
Continue Reading UK public ready to pay to avoid hormones in beef and chlorinated chicken
The second round of trade talks between the United States and United Kingdom has ended with food standards, including safety, still high on the agenda.
Negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) took place from June 15 to 26 with the next session planned for the end of July. They
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America’s poultry industry says it does not use chlorine to bath slaughtered chickens “that much anymore,” but it is still lobbying hard on the issue that has kept American poultry out of Britain for more than two decades.
U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, co-chair of the Congressional Chicken Caucus, has sent
Continue Reading Poultry state congressmen pressure trade talks to get American chicken into U.K.
A parliamentary committee in the United Kingdom has put forward an amendment to the Agriculture Bill to protect food standards.
Members of the cross-party Environment Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee made the move after a hearing with representatives from the agriculture, animal welfare and trade sectors this week.
Members
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