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US demands to relax rules on meat imports have become a controversial topic as Brexit looms ’s foreign policy chief has suggested.today to ‘fire the starting gun’ on trade talks as the UK prepares to leave the EU tomorrow.
Washington has previously asked the UK to relax the ban in order to increase agricultural trade between the two countries.Mr Pompeo discussed other hot topics including Huawei’s access to 5G networks in a meeting with Boris Johnson today EU safety guidelines say ‘exposure to chlorite residues arising from treated poultry carcasses would be of no safety concern,’ while chlorine-rinsed salads are common in the UK and elsewhere in the EU.
The EU says it maintains its ban because the best way to eliminate the risk of bacteria, such as salmonella, is to maintain high farming standards throughout the chain.There have also been talks of letting in hormone-treated beef, which has long been a sore point between the EU and US.
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