UK must accept US food standards in trade deal, says farm chief
The UK must accept US food standards as part of any future trade deal with Washington, the head of America's farming lobby has said.
Mr Duvall, himself a poultry farmer in Georgia, said he wanted to have"a conversation" about US food standards given the fears in the UK.One of the most controversial US practices is washing chicken with chlorine, which is banned in the EU. This is not because the wash itself is harmful but over fears that treating meat with chlorine at the end allows poorer hygiene elsewhere in the production process.
"If there was something wrong with it our federal inspection systems would not be allowing us to use that," he added.In London this week, Donald Trump's national security advisor John Bolton suggested that the US could strike trade deals with the UK on a"sector-by -sector basis" to speed up the process.
He also dismissed concerns that a deal would expose British farmers to harmful competition from much larger US farms with lower production costs. It has led to a sharp drop in US farm exports to China and forced the Trump administration to pay emergency subsidies to support American farmers.
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