Food: Origin Marking

(asked on 17th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government plans to seek to permit UK food to continue to be classed under EU country of origin labelling after the UK has left the EU.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 23rd July 2018

After the UK has left the EU, food originating in the UK will no longer be able to indicate EU origin.

Food that is produced in the EU using UK ingredients will, after the UK leaves the EU, need to state that non-EU (or UK) food is used in the production of the food.

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