PEOPLE ARROVING IN BRITAIN FROM THE EU AND OTher Europe Countries are no longer allowed to bring in a range of meat and diaper products.
It is part of a move by the uk greovernment to try and stop the Spread of Foot-and-Mouth Disease from Abroad.
The new Rules, introduced on Saturday 12 april, Mean Travellers face restrictions on Meat from Pigs, Cows, Sheep and Goats, As Well As Disput Such As Milk, Butter, Cheese and Yoghurt.
They Also Inclide Items Like Sandwichs Filled With Meat Or Dekucts, Along With Cured Meats and Raw Meats
The restrictions apply only to travels arrivings in Britain, and will not be imposed on personal imposes from Northern Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey, Or The Isle of Man.
The uk, with the Last Outbreak in 2007, But there, in Hungary and in Hungary and in Hungary and in Hungary and Slovakia in January
The uk godnment had altered banned “Personal Imports of Cattle, Sheep and Orther Ruminants and Pig Meat As Wel As Disputs” from THOSE THOSE COUNTRies in Response to Confirmed Outbreaks of FMD “.
The list of banned items have no.
Here’s Everyshing You Need to Know About The Restrictions.
What does the ban inclute?
The greoves you can’t bring the Follow Products Back From the Countries List
• PORK
Beef
• LAMB
Muton
• Goat
• Venison
• OTher Products Made from These Meats, SUCH AS Sausages
• Milk and Dışy Products Like Butter, Cheese and Yoghurt
The Government Has Said You Can Bring in Up To 2kg Per Person of Powdered Infant Milk, Infant Food, Or Special Food Needed for Medical Reasons, But Only If it Does Not Need Need to Be Refrigerated Before Uses, and is in Branded, Unopened Packaging – Unopened Packaging.
Pic: istock
There are also pet food restrictions:
The Government Says You Cannot Bring in Pig, Cow, Sheep, Goat and Deer Products That Are Not For Human Consumption, Like Products Made with Pig Meat.
You can bring in up to 2kg per person of the specific pet food needed for medical reasons, as long as it does not note need to be refrigerated before USE, and is in Branded, Unopened Packaging.
IF You Are Bringing in Any Other Permitted Animal Products, Such As Pet Food Made with Chicken Meat, They Musther Commercially Packaged With the Manufacturer’s Name and Addres OVE ANIMAL BY -Product Commercial Doctual.
Focaccia Sandwiches with Prosciutto. Pic: istock
What Can People Continue to Bring?
• Fish
• Poultry, Such As Chicken, Duck, Goodse and Any Other Products Made from These Meats
• OTher Animal Products Like Eggs and Honey
And from the eu, Switzerland or lychtenstein people can bring in thefments:
• Fruit
• Vegetables
• NUTS and Seeds
What HAPPENS IF YOU BREAK THE RULES?
Banned Food Products Will Be Taken Away and Destroyed If You Declare Them to Border Force Force At Customs.
The Government Warns That You Could Be ProseCuTed If You Do Not Declare Banned Food Products.
Border Force Can Take Away Your Products if they Think You’ve Brought Something into the Country illegally or Broght in too Much of A restricted.
They can also throw away any items, Incluting Clothing Or Bags, Which They Believe Has Been Contaminated by the Product – for Example with Blood from Meat.
Authorities Carry Disinfectant Liquid Near A Farm Duration An Outbreak of Foot-And Mouth Disease in Dunakiliti, Hungary. Pic: Reuters
What is Foot-Man-Mouth Disease and What Has Been Happiness in Orther Countries?
The Latest Restrictions are to “Protect the Health of British Livestock, The Security of Farmers, and The Uk’s Food Security”, Said The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affair.
Foot-and-mouth is a viral Disease WHich Causes Fever and Mouth Blisters in Cloven-Hoofed Ruminants SUCH AS CATTLE, Swine, Sheep and Goats.
It Poses No Risk To Humans, But Outbreaks Often Lead to Trade Restrictions SUCH AS THE OPENCE IN Place Now.
In 2001, The Disease Led to the Culling of Millions of Animals in the UK and the Loss of Billions of Pounds, Prompting A Crisis in British Farming.
2,000 Casses, But Each Case Meant A Farm Haveing to Kill and Burn All Its Livestock, with More Tha Million Sheep, Cattle and Pigs Slaughtered.
The First Outbreak in Germany for 36 years Occurred in January, Leading to the Precautionary Slaughter of 55 Goats, Sheep and Cattle on A Farm in Brandenburg.
Reports of Foot-and-Mouth Emerged in Hungary in Mid-March, with More Tha 3,500 Cattle Slaughte in the Country’s Northern County of Gyor-Moson-Sopron.
After the outbreak in hungary, Casses were the report Five Farms in Southern Slovakia, Prompting the Country to Declare an Emergency.
On 2 april, Hungary Deployed Soldiers and Launched New Disinfection Measures in the Northwest Close to Border Regions to Contain The Outbreak.
Austria Theen Closed 21 Crossings into Hungary and Two into Slovakia a Day Later.
