All Brexit articles
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News
Gene editing progress could slow down due to new UK-EU deal
Progress in the precision breeding area, widely seen as a post-Brexit regulatory freedom opportunity, could pause amid UK-EU talks
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Category Report
Best in show… but for how long? Trends in organic 2025
As organic food & drink sales grow well ahead of the wider market, calls are mounting for greater retail and government support
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News
Supermarket bosses promise lower prices after EU deal slashes border checks
Routine checks on animal and plant products moving between GB and NI will be slashed, although not removed completely
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Analysis & Features
Food and drink reacts as border checks on EU exports scrapped
The government has reached a 12-year deal that will grant fishing access for EU boats into British waters, with ministers also having nailed down a reduction in checks on food exports to the bloc in return
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News
UK and EU reach deals on fishing quotas and food & drink exports
London and Brussels have agreed to extend fishing quotas for 12 years while reducing rules on food trade
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Media Bites 19 May: EU reset talks, Chinese vapes and M&S hacking
Controversial “reset” talks between the UK and the EU dominate today’s news, while the M&S hacking fallout continues and Trump tariffs lead to potential Chinese vape surge
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Brexit reset talks: UK ham and bacon producers set to follow EU regulations
The UK and the EU are meeting for discussions on sanitary and phytosanitary measures at the ’Brexit reset’ summit next week
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Chinese food producers eye UK markets amid Trump tariffs disruption
Chinese food and agriculture exporters are looking towards the UK and EU amid trade uncertainty with the US
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Media Bites 14 May: US now eyes pork and poultry deals, M&S hacking, Moët Hennessy’s ‘crisis’
Pork, poultry, rice and seafood are ‘at the front of the line’ in talks to expand last week’s UK/US trade deal, says the US agriculture secretary
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Defra u-turns over controversial SFI closure following ‘error’
The government has apologised over information given to applicants of the subsidy scheme who missed out before it was abruptly closed in March
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Poultry sector hails end of ‘chlorinated chicken’ threat after UK/US trade deal
The prospect of chlorinated chicken imports has dominated discourse around a potential transatlantic trade deal
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Comment & Opinion
Big week for international trade deals – but is any win really a win?
Keir Starmer celebrates slam dunks in trade relations –- but here’s what the India and US trade deals mean for the British economy
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News
UK borders ‘not secure’, claim MPs, as minister grilled over illegal meat imports
The Efra committee is holding a series of evidence hearings looking into the state of the UK’s borders post-Brexit
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UK-India trade deal: food and drink businesses to benefit from ‘historic’ agreement
British food and drink makers are set to benefit significantly from lower trade tariffs with India
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Plans for £150m Essex greenhouse complex submitted to local council
The 100-acre development from Rivenhall Greenhouse will be capable of producing 30,000 tonnes of tomatoes per year
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Comment & Opinion
Can a UK-US trade deal avoid ‘dreaded’ chlorinated chicken?
Most UK food and farming bodies are dead against a US trade deal, with the British Poultry Council recently warning that ‘if agrifood becomes a bargaining chip, we all lose’
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Comment & Opinion
Will Reform succeed as the party for food and farming?
Right now food and drink could do with a party concerned to support and nurture it, says Ian Wright, partner at Acuti Associates
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News
MPs approve new fair buying practice rules for pork supply chains
The regulations follow the pig crisis of 2021/22, whcih saw 200,000 pigs held back on farms due to a glut of supply and a shortage of butchers
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News
Media Bites, 22 April: fishing rights, free trade calls and EPR woes
Fishing rights are set to be shared with the EU as the Labour government aims to reset relations with the bloc
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News
Ban on personal imports of EU meat and dairy needs more publicity: suppliers
Defra last Saturday announced it was introducing a ban on a slew of personal imports to ‘protect the health of British livestock and the UK’s food security’