{"id":19595,"date":"2026-04-22T14:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/19595\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:09:35","slug":"brexit-news-british-chips-and-cakes-could-be-binned-under-keir-starmers-eu-reset-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/19595\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit news: British chips and cakes could be BINNED under Keir Starmer’s EU reset deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oven chips and cakes could be forced into the bin rather than put on shop shelves under a potential post-Brexit food trade deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Discussions over the deal began last May as part of a sanitary and phytosanitary agreement – a bid to simplify trade for farmers and food producers while reducing bureaucratic burdens and export costs.<\/p>\n

But industry bodies have now warned the deal would require the UK food sector to adopt more than 400 EU rule changes.<\/p>\n

This alignment could render food already planted, harvested or frozen unsellable if it was produced using pesticides that Brussels has since prohibited.<\/p>\n

Karen Betts, the chief executive of the Food and Drink Federation, highlighted the lengthy production timelines that make this particularly problematic.<\/p>\n

“If you look at potatoes going into oven chips or crisps, it’s a three-year cycle from planting your potato to it appearing in an oven chip in a supermarket freezer,” she said. <\/p>\n

“So if your potato was grown using a pesticide that is not approved by the EU, then potentially, when it gets to supermarket sale in three years’ time, it is not going to be allowed to be sold.”<\/p>\n

Baked goods face similar difficulties, with wheat potentially stored as grain for a year before being milled and kept for another year prior to becoming cake ingredients.<\/p>\n

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Oven chips could be binned as part of new EU regulations <\/p>\n

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“Businesses are going to have to change that supply chain because that pesticide is no longer approved,” Ms Betts explained.<\/p>\n

British food regulations stayed the same when the UK left the EU – but Brussels has continued updating its rules in the years since.<\/p>\n

Ms Betts noted that closer alignment has revealed “more than 400 amendments that companies will have to comply with where EU law has changed while UK law has not”.<\/p>\n

Smaller enterprises which conduct little or no business with Europe are anticipated to bear the heaviest burden, having been less likely to monitor Brussels’ evolving rule changes.<\/p>\n

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Ministers have asked for a grace period to allow good being made to pass through the new rules <\/p>\n

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Yet the concerns extend beyond modest operations. <\/p>\n

Sources indicated that numerous major companies have also privately voiced significant worries about the forthcoming regulatory shifts.<\/p>\n

Despite these challenges, Ms Betts maintained that moving closer to EU standards “is the right thing to do” from a strategic perspective.<\/p>\n

The Food and Drink Federation is pressing ministers to establish transition periods allowing products already within supply chains to continue being sold.<\/p>\n

“If we don’t, we’ll end up with loads of food waste and those oven chips being dumped when you know really they shouldn’t be,” she warned.<\/p>\n

A Government spokesman stated: “Our food and drink deal will deliver billions for British industry; a smooth transition is critical to unlocking that growth.”<\/p>\n

Ministers expect negotiations to conclude by summer, with legislation subsequently introduced to incorporate EU rules into British law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oven chips and cakes could be forced into the bin rather than put on shop shelves under a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[157,17,31,18,14,5,20,6,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-19595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-labour-party","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-uk-politics","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-world-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116448759756584127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}