{"id":132801,"date":"2024-08-05T07:25:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T04:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/uk-food-industry-says-lack-of-testing-capacity-forcing-imports-back-to-eu-for-checks\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T07:25:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T04:25:28","slug":"uk-food-industry-says-lack-of-testing-capacity-forcing-imports-back-to-eu-for-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/uk-food-industry-says-lack-of-testing-capacity-forcing-imports-back-to-eu-for-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"UK food industry says lack of testing capacity forcing imports back to EU for checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132801\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nTrade bodies blame lack of lab facilities at Brexit border posts for longer delays and shorter shelf life of food. Imported food coming into the UK through Brexit border posts is being sent back to Europe to be tested due to a lack of laboratory capacity in Britain, food bodies have said.<\/p>\n<p>The SPS Certification Working group, which represents 30 trade bodies covering \u00a3100bn worth of the UK\u2019s food supply, has written to the government warning that members are being advised that some samples of imported foods are being sent to countries such as Germany to be tested before they can be released at the border. It has said that the lack of lab facilities was causing extra costs, longer delays and a shorter shelf-life for food coming into the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, which was sent to the new environment secretary Steve Reed last week, comes three months after the government introduced new post-Brexit checks on animal and plant products coming into Britain. The checks at border control posts situated near UK ports, which were brought in on 30 April, aim to enhance Britain\u2019s biosecurity and stop the introduction of diseases into the UK from the continent.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, these checks require samples of food being taken to be tested in labs for microbial or chemical analysis, or to check the authenticity of a product. However, the UK is now facing a shortage in laboratory capabilities and is more reliant on international partners for help with sample testing. In a separate circular put out this month, Robin May, the Food Standard Agency\u2019s chief scientific adviser, said he had concerns about the UK\u2019s diminishing official laboratory capability.<\/p>\n<p>The SPS Working Group letter states that in some cases samples are being sent to UK laboratories and then forwarded on to facilities in Europe, without knowledge or consent of the originating food business. The body added: \u201cThis requires raising an export health certificate to export the sample to the EU laboratory, representing additional cost, delay, loss of shelf life, and viability of the use of the foodstuff, as particularly if short shelf life, results can also be too late to be of any practical value.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SPS Working Group was formed three years ago and includes a number of food businesses, from farmers to food producers and hauliers. Members include the Fresh Produce Consortium, Chilled Food Association, Dairy UK and the Road Haulage Association.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/article\/2024\/aug\/04\/uk-food-industry-brexit-border-lab-testing-capacity-lack-eu\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/article\/2024\/aug\/04\/uk-food-industry-brexit-border-lab-testing-capacity-lack-eu\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/uk-food-industry-says-lack-of-testing-capacity-forcing-imports-back-to-eu-for-checks\/\">UK food industry says lack of testing capacity forcing imports back to EU for checks<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,274,15555],"class_list":["post-132801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-eu","tag-uk-food-industry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}