Archive Article: 2001/10/19

19 October 2001

MLC show spending was well worth it

Taking exhibition space at any international food fair does not come cheap. Entertaining more than 60 key buyers and sellers to a lavish dinner also knocks a hole in an over-stretched budget.

Yet, judging by the response to the Meat and Livestock Commissions presence at this weeks ANUGA food fair in Germany, it was levy-payers money well spent.

The timing could not have been better, coming less than a week after Brussels approved British pig exports.