Trade Deal with Australia: British Food Standards

Part of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – in the House of Commons at on 17 June 2021.

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Photo of George Eustice George Eustice The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

I have had regular discussions with the Secretary of State at the Department for International Trade and, indeed, other Cabinet colleagues on the issue of food standards in the context of our negotiations with Australia. The UK has a prohibition on the sale of beef treated with hormones, and the agreement recognises our right to regulate in this way.