The UK government is not preparing well enough for the impacts of Brexit on the food sector, argues Tony Lewis, Head of Policy at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health in a piece for the Food Research Collaboration. Lewis points out that, among other issues, introducing necessary food safety checks on imports could cause 17 miles of tailbacks along the Dover-Calais route, the resources needed to operate the border may not be ready by March 2019 (when the UK will leave the European Union), and businesses do not have enough time to adapt in the event of no deal being reached between the UK and the EU.
Read the full piece here. See also the Brexit No Deal technical notices, the paper The impacts of Brexit on agricultural trade, food consumption, and diet-related mortality in the UK, the briefing Hormone-treated beef: Should Britain accept it after Brexit? and the Foodsource building block What is food security?
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