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If we leave the EU it doesn't stop us saying, "EU food can enter without checks".
Is that the bit that's referred to here in the article:
But this approach would have profound consequences. Overnight, there would be no protections whatsoever for UK consumers on the food they eat.
This would be a betrayal of ministers' assurances of high food standards after Brexit, but put aside the morality and think about the practicality. Opening the border in this way would provide an open invitation for fraudsters. They could send anything to the UK they like - any food product, any drink, with any ingredient - knowing there would be no checks. The spot check system operating under EU law would vanish. There would be no documentation, no safeguards, no court oversight, and no supervision.
The UK would be instantly downgraded to pariah status by the EU and the rest of our trading partners. British food exports would shrivel up.
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Yes I understand that, but the concept that there would be carnage at borders due to food coming into the country, seems to be overstated.
At the moment, food comes into the country fine because it's been produced in the EU and therefore conforms to EU regulations for food manufacturing.
If we leave the EU it doesn't stop us saying, "EU food can enter without checks".
That doesn't address the potential cost increase, but honestly, what is stopping us writing a law that comes into affect the day we BREXIT (if we do), that says anything that comes in from the EU conforms to our own standards?