Animal Products: Competition

(asked on 6th February 2020) - 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 her Department has made an assessment of the effect a mutual recognition agreement with the US on animal welfare standards on the competitiveness of UK animal produce in the UK market.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 11th February 2020

US animal products are produced to a range of US animal welfare standards, partly because some US regulatory requirements apply at state level and others apply at federal level. Industry farm assurance schemes also exist in the United States and involve scheme members meeting scheme standards, which may exceed US regulatory requirements. The quality standards which apply to particular products imported from the US also reflect the commercial supply chain requirements of the importer, which may exceed the baseline regulatory standards applying in the US.

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