UK bans EU cheese and meat imports to stop illness spreading | EUROtoday

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Tom Espiner

Business reporter, BBC News

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The UK authorities has introduced in a brief ban on holidaymakers bringing in cheese and meat merchandise from the EU in a bid to stop the unfold of foot-and-mouth illness.

Travellers haven’t been allowed to convey again objects similar to cured meat and cheese, together with in sandwiches, since Saturday because of the rising outbreak on the continent.

The restrictions apply no matter whether or not the products are packed or packaged, or purchased from obligation free.

It follows an earlier ban of comparable merchandise from Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and Austria after rising circumstances of the cattle illness in these nations.

The restrictions apply to individuals arriving in Great Britain, not Northern Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey, or the Isle of Man.

Products might be seized and destroyed if individuals attempt to convey them in, and in “serious cases” individuals may very well be fined as much as £5,000.

The listing of restricted merchandise contains:

  • different merchandise made out of these meats, for instance sausages
  • milk and dairy merchandise like butter, cheese and yoghurt

People can convey as much as 2kg per individual of powdered toddler milk, toddler meals, or particular meals wanted for medical causes.

Foot and mouth illness is a extremely infectious virus which causes blisters inside an animal’s mouth and beneath their hooves, and may trigger lameness and issues feeding.

There are at present no circumstances of foot-and-mouth illness within the UK.

The final outbreak within the UK was in 2001. Although there have been solely 2,000 confirmed circumstances, greater than six million sheep, cattle and pigs had been slaughtered.

This is as a result of every of these circumstances meant a farm having all of its livestock killed and burned.

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