Looser food standards off the menu in any US-UK trade deal, UK says

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Source: Reuters

Britain will not relax its food safety standards as part of any deal to secure lower tariffs on its exports to the United States, business minister Jonathan Reynolds said on Sunday.

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Reynolds said on Sunday that looser food standards remained off the table for the Labour administration, as he viewed that as breaching promises made in 2024's election campaign.

"We will never change our SPS (sanitary and phytosanitary) food standards. We've made that perfectly clear to the United States," he told Sky News in an interview.

Common U.S. and Canadian practices such as washing raw chicken in chlorinated water or feeding growth hormones to cattle are banned in Britain and the European Union.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/looser-food-standards-off-menu-any-us-uk-trade-deal-uk-says-2025-04-13/