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 Topic: Food standards of the European UnionPosted: 03 Aug 2022 at 8:57pm |
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Can anyone on here explain EU contries food standards rules? how they work etc. For example if you were producing food for a supermarket in a EU country would EU food inspectors call to your place of production to make sure your were following the rules correctly? Or is it done internally by the country for the EU?
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Posted: 03 Aug 2022 at 9:40pm |
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The supermarket (i.e. if it was a chain) tend to audit your production facilities and standards and ensure you have certain accreditation before they do business with you i.e. BRC, Fair Trade standards etc.
Audits can be unannounced as part of the deal. A lot then follow up with all sorts of paperwork relating to your ethical data and practices. Specs for products being shipped into various countries and regions can have all sorts of various standards relating to product detail from ingredients (max amounts of x and y) to the way products are dated i.e. numeric dates or month and year etc. |
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Posted: 03 Aug 2022 at 10:36pm |
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Thats roughly what I thought, how does it work though when the food is produced in a country outside the eu?
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Posted: 03 Aug 2022 at 10:43pm |
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Can’t help there I’m afraid. But more of the same I’d imagine.
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Posted: 04 Aug 2022 at 10:04am |
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You got to look at the EU as a sort of cartel when it comes to food. It protects members interests i.e. EU farmers by limiting what type and the amount of food that can be imported into the bloc. Foods that are allowed in must meet stringent standards set by the EU. the likes of US beef and Chicken are banned because they don't meet EU standards (they pump them full of sh*t) but a secondary reason is to protect EU farmers from imports which keeps the prices in the marketplace at a sustainable level.
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Posted: 04 Aug 2022 at 11:22am |
Plenty of our food is imported from outside the eu, how does the eu ensure that the standards are met by the producers in those countries? Do they agree to send/allow inspectors into those countries? Or do the origin countries do it on behalf of the eu?
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Posted: 04 Aug 2022 at 11:25am |
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Environmental health officer here  I can only give the UK pre Brexit overview here, but when food was tpo arrive in to a port etc from outside the EU, sampling would often have been done with these food products to ensure that they met EU standards at the time |
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Posted: 04 Aug 2022 at 11:56am |
interesting, so you are not aware of any checks done by the eu in the country of origin? How often did you come across dodgy produce?
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Posted: 04 Aug 2022 at 12:13pm |
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Checks done by the EU in country of origin-not that I am aware of, although as previously mentioned large supermarkets etc would do their own auf=dits of producers sending their food in Dodgy produce-regularly enough, although I am no longer working in the food/import/port side of things any longer
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Posted: 04 Aug 2022 at 1:40pm |
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So in theory there should be lots more(than before brexit) checks done at irish ports on food produced in the uk for the republic?
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Posted: 04 Aug 2022 at 7:53pm |
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You sound like your trying to import some dodgy chum products
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It would damage this forums' reputation
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