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Brexit and food – standards could get even worse

Erik P Millstone, University of Sussex and Tim Lang, City, University of London

The UK’s food safety regime is not working properly. It is failing to ensure an acceptably safe food supply. Food poisoning rates are too high; confirmed cases of the Campylobacter bacteria, for example, increased by about 46% from 2008 to 2012.

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