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Meat: Import Controls

Asked by Dr Neil HudsonConservativeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 19 May 2025UIN 51970

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to include a ban on the importation of product where antibiotics have been used as growth promoters in all future international trade deals.

Answered by Daniel Zeichner

We have been clear that we will only ever sign trade agreements which align with the UK’s national interests, and we will always uphold our high food standards.

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