Rotten pork

Mislabeling is common place, once the product is processed it looses its identity, cheap ingredients in a premium product is how they make money. Just because it says Danish Bacon or Anchor butter does not mean that is the origin.

Nothing new here, remember, whilst in EU, Dutch trading companies sold beef, containg horsemeat, , across Europe, who checked them.

I don’t think that we can be too careful in any regard to the quality of our food.

Brexit of course is not directly responsible.

The governments decision to relax port checks however is directly responsible.

They will have been warned by the appropriate department, but have clearly made the decision to break yet another public service on which we all rely.

The Guardian story says that it was one of the UK's top food manufacturers that bought in and used the rotten meat. That is serious stuff, Where were the 'stringent checks' on this company?

M0nica

This story was broken on the front page of the Daily Telegraph a day earlier.

It seems this fraud might have been going on for over a decade, so nothing to do with Brexit.

I don't read the Telegraph so I didn't know anything about the story.

Which was why I asked in my first post if it was something different from a Brexit story.

There has always the risk of unfit food coming into the food chain, and criminals willing to make money doing it. Because there are very few checks on imports coming into the UK these days it’s easy to do.
Most UK buyers will do their own stringent checks, a few are willing to take a risk to make a fast buck, for processed food probably happens frequently, undetected.

This story was broken on the front page of the Daily Telegraph a day earlier.

It seems this fraud might have been going on for over a decade, so nothing to do with Brexit.

www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/30/rotten-pork-sold-in-uk-may-lead-to-tighter-control-of-food-safety-body-fsa

Is it something to do with the fraudsters charter our Brexit government handed over when it decided that border controls on incoming goods from the EU would be too much hassle and delay. So they took back control by eliminating controls.

Rotten meat welcome; desperate people in rubber dinghies not welcome...

Or is this something completely different, Wwmk2?