Ban suspect meat imports
16 February 2001
Ban suspect meat imports
YET again there is turmoil over the imports of beef, from Germany and
Ireland.
Banned specified material has been found in some batches. Now all sorts of people are running round saying what are we going to do. They suggest inspection of all the imported carcases for spinal chord before they are processed and called British!
What utter nonesense. Imports from suspect countries should be banned immediately. Are the NFU urging the Minister to ban these imports? If not ,why not?
This is not doing the domestic meat trade any good either; without proper labelling who knows where this foreign meat goes.
All imported meat should have a large country of origin flag on it, so there is some chance of the consumer being able to make a choice.
PT Hughes