🆘 New Brexit Border Control Posts (BCPs) barely being used. 🆘 Importers are paying inspection fees for incoming loads BUT they are not actually being called for inspection. 🆘 The bulk of goods continue to be waved through without checks being applied. 🧵 www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2024...

We need to talk about illegal meat imports

Provision Trade Federation (PTF) director general Rod Addy looks at the impact of the new UK import regime, which kicked off in earnest on 30 April 2024.

Sounds like money for old rope

🚛 We have ports and BCPs that are strapped for cash and under-resourced, unable to apply the kind of regular checks desperately needed to prevent illegal imports from breaching UK borders. 🆘 The major area of concern is illegal meat imports, particularly pork, from the EU and the rest of the world.

The usual story with Brexit ; there are more rules than then are people to enforce the rules. It's an impossible task.