Labelling country of origin of fresh fruit and vegetables

Thank you Northface that is very useful. I had already gone on the Gov.uk website but it was not up to date, so it wasn’t much use. You have found a more recent version!

By the way, the 2 very expensive tomatoes I bought from the green grocer yesterday were completely tasteless, so I won’t be buying those again.

That’s why I hardly ever buy fruit or veg from the local market - much as I’d like to - because you can hardly ever tell where anything’s from, and I do prefer to buy U.K. seasonal whenever possible.

We still have milk delivered, and they will deliver a lot of other items. I once ordered carrots, only to find that they were from the Netherlands. So that was definitely a one-off.

It's still a requirement according to this, last updated 7 December 2022:

www.gov.uk/guidance/comply-with-marketing-standards-for-fresh-fruit-and-vegetables

As far as I am aware, any referencer to EU legislation should be read as retained EU law.

There is a delayed change coming from 1 January 2024, that EU origin must be replaced with UK origin where applicable, but otherwise, I believe the regulations remain the same.

I bought loose beef tomatoes and baking apples from Aldi and they had stickers on them ‘British’.