Horsemeat (Supermarket Products) Debate

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Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Kris Hopkins

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Horsemeat (Supermarket Products)

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Business of the House
Thursday 17th January 2013

(11 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Heath Portrait Mr Heath
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I do not honestly believe that there is any legal impediment at the moment to retailers doing a proper job of establishing the provenance of the food they serve on their shelves.

Kris Hopkins Portrait Kris Hopkins (Keighley) (Con)
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We already have strict rules, with penalties, relating to food tracing and labelling. Should we not review those penalties to provide a greater deterrence to companies?

David Heath Portrait Mr Heath
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We continue to keep our policies on labelling under review. In this case, however, it appears that it is not simply a labelling error. We are almost certainly talking about real criminality, and there are very clear laws in place to deal with such criminality.

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