Food to EU after Brexit.

Tim P

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This is a question that has been around the block several times but still no comprehensive answer..What food stuffs can we take/ not take to the EU now we are a 3rd Country?? For instance, if we buy Danish bacon in Asda, can we take it to the EU seeing as how it originated in a EU country, was exported bulk to the UK and then was packaged here. Can we take home made pre-cooked frozen meal portions, i.e. cottage pie mix across in our freezer for personal consumption. What about long life milk, and breakfast cereals?
Is there a definitive list anywhere and if not why not?
We hate food waste and would be very upset if some official in Dieppe decided to bin our perfectly good (and safe) food.
As our food safety standards are higher than a most, if not all, of the EU, this just feels like bloody mindedness, or is this just profit driven? Am I getting it all wrong?
 
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Information will be in mmm on the 27th of May. I think that the rules apply to all countries outside the EU not the UK in particular.
 
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So there is already a list of Non EU countries ie Switzerland, that are exempt from this ruling why is the UK not just added to the list.
 
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Info here
ec.europa.eu

Personal imports

Personal goods containing meat, milk or their products brought into the EU continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union.
ec.europa.eu ec.europa.eu

Don’t think it matters where the food was produced Or originally from.
 
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Tim P said:
This is a question that has been around the block several times but still no comprehensive answer..What food stuffs can we take/ not take to the EU now we are a 3rd Country?? For instance, if we buy Danish bacon in Asda, can we take it to the EU seeing as how it originated in a EU country, was exported bulk to the UK and then was packaged here. Can we take home made pre-cooked frozen meal portions, i.e. cottage pie mix across in our freezer for personal consumption. What about long life milk, and breakfast cereals?
Is there a definitive list anywhere and if not why not?
We hate food waste and would be very upset if some official in Dieppe decided to bin our perfectly good (and safe) food.
As our food safety standards are higher than a most, if not all, of the EU, this just feels like bloody mindedness, or is this just profit driven? Am I getting it all wrong?
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Unless you are eating bacon for medical reasons then no bacon I'm afraid. :confused:
Customs control 2021
You are not allowed to take meat or meat products to France apart from fish or fish products (up to a maximum of 20kg). You are not allowed to take milk, cheese, yoghurt or other milk-based products except for infant milk, infant food or food required by humans or pets for medical reasons.

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Tim P said:
So there is already a list of Non EU countries ie Switzerland, that are exempt from this ruling why is the UK not just added to the list.
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Switzerland is in the Single Market so have the same agreement on food standards etc the UK choose not to remain in the Single Market an option they could have chosen as replacement for full membership of the EU.
 
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Potty said:
Info here
ec.europa.eu

Personal imports

Personal goods containing meat, milk or their products brought into the EU continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union.
ec.europa.eu ec.europa.eu

Don’t think it matters where the food was produced Or originally from.
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Excellent. Many thanks for posting. In short we "are not allowed to bring in meat, milk or their products". Makes sense considering the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak came from a single farm where pigs probably fed food waste from personal imports from the Far East (and that we exported to the rest of the EU). So it's more than likely that we wrote the EU rule you quoted!
A pity that we are now just another foreign country. Guess us getting a Switzerland-like exclusion would have required adjudication by the European Courts, so unacceptable. So the food rule is what we chose.
FYI - source of data on the 2001 F&M outbreak:
 
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You either smuggle it and accept it may be confiscated or you buy when you get there.

Our govt decided not to align with EU food standards.

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Tim P said:
This is a question that has been around the block several times but still no comprehensive answer..What food stuffs can we take/ not take to the EU now we are a 3rd Country?? For instance, if we buy Danish bacon in Asda, can we take it to the EU seeing as how it originated in a EU country, was exported bulk to the UK and then was packaged here. Can we take home made pre-cooked frozen meal portions, i.e. cottage pie mix across in our freezer for personal consumption. What about long life milk, and breakfast cereals?
Is there a definitive list anywhere and if not why not?
We hate food waste and would be very upset if some official in Dieppe decided to bin our perfectly good (and safe) food.
As our food safety standards are higher than a most, if not all, of the EU, this just feels like bloody mindedness, or is this just profit driven? Am I getting it all wrong?
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I'd not bother taking any meat or dairy or maybe a pint or two so if I need to get rid, I'll just drink it. There's a well stocked Lidl on the 2nd or 3rd roundabout out of the Dieppe port. We've had a 7.5m motorhome in the carpark a couple of times, no worries.

Same at the likes of Ouistreham, you pass two supermarkets leaving the town, Carrefour & Lidl. Big Auchan by the hippodrome on the way out of Cherbourg, carpark is huge, if you head out of St Malo towards the aquarium there's an Intermarché and a Carrefour., the latter has better parking.
 
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Just smiffy said:
Plenty of good safe food in Europe, millions of people over there have been surviving on it for thousands of years….😊
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Ivory55 said:
When in Rome do as the Romans’ do. I got the hang of the red wine, just not on my cornflakes. Haha
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I’ve heard the lions like the odd Christian too ;)
 
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orridge said:
the UK choose not to remain in the Single Market an option they could have chosen as replacement for full membership of the EU.
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Unfortunately they couldn't.If they wanted to they had also to remain in the free movement for people so there would not have been a lot of point leaving.
 
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So does the same rules apply coming back to UK ? no more Brie etc .
 
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Its very annoying, but what was voted for. What's even more annoying (to me) is that if you bring an extra bottle of wine over the duty free allowance, which is not very generous, you are charged duty on the whole lot. That is in the control of Boris.

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I take what i want and will continue to do so, if anyone wants to count 300 creme eggs at the border they are welcome :LOL:

We (in normal times) cross borders and bring back things we are not supposed to on a weekly occurrence. My calculation is that once in a blue moon i'll get the lot take off me, no big deal as i'll have enjoyed it the other 100 times previously.

I got stopped 4wks back coming back from Italy, they weighed all the prosciutto and it came in about 100grms within range (just by chance), he guy hadn't spotted the 2nd bag i had under my coat:sneaky: there's always ways around it and some good tactics like following an Eastern European plated car as it will always get stopped before you do(y)
 
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For me it’s not the obvious things, it’s stuff like........

Gravy granules
Oxo’s
Coffee pods
Other stuff like that I can’t remember.

Oh and “Milk” Chocolate😂😂
 
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just abit like it was years ago. way before we joined the eec etc .
france customs or uk customs could and did do searches . not all the time but did do them.
remember my mum and dad having to give sausages away or should i say throw them in a bin.
coming back was same but different things .
it was a hide and seek game.
mind food ,clothes etc were alot cheaper over there than in uk then.
as a kid always had french,spanish or italian clothing ,spain was really good for shoes and leather goods then.
seem to have got rid of cheap things abroad now .other than fags and beer etc.
 
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Plenty of hiding places in the van for my bacon and sausages. 😁😁

They won’t take me alive if they touch that😂😂

Edit: on second thought, they won’t take Mrs CC alive if they touch that😁
Sounds better👍
 
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