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Is it permissible to take tinned food, including tinned meat, from the UK to the EU?
 
Can you or can't you 😀.... I doubt it makes any difference if it's in a tin or sandwich, even if the tin originated in the EU.
 
The rules dont say anything about how its packaged, it's simply no meat, dairy or derivatives. (I'm paraphrasing).
 
If you can't take vac packed meat or bottled milk I don't think they will allow tinned meat either.
 
I had the first tinned meat I’ve had in years just today, fried spam sandwiches for lunch, wow. Probably about as bad for me as possible but again, wow just as good as I remembered.

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No you cannot, and I suppose this includes things like chicken soup!

Legislation​

The current rules are laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2122, which repeals and replaces the previously applicable Commission Regulation (EC) No 206/2009. This Regulation clearly explains to the general public the rules concerning the introduction of animal products into the EU. Namely:

  • Travellers are not allowed to bring in meat, milk or their products, unless they are coming with less than 10 kilograms of these products from the Faeroe Islands or Greenland
  • There is also an exemption for powdered infant milk, infant food, and special foods or special pet feed required for medical reasons, if weighing less than 2 kilograms and provided that:
    • such products do not require refrigeration before opening
    • that they are packaged proprietary brand products for direct sale to the final consumer, and
    • the packaging is unbroken unless in current use
  • For fishery products (including fish and certain shellfish such as prawns, lobsters, dead mussels and dead oysters), travellers are allowed to bring in up to 20 kilograms or the weight of one fish if this is higher. However, there is no such weight restriction for travellers coming from the Faeroe Islands or Greenland
  • For other animal products, such as honey, live oysters, live mussels and snails for example, travellers are allowed to bring in up to 2 kilograms
  • These rules do not apply to animal products transported between the EU Member States, or for animal products coming from Andorra, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, San Marino or Switzerland.
 
glenn2926 said:
I had the first tinned meat I’ve had in years just today, fried spam sandwiches for lunch, wow. Probably about as bad for me as possible but again, wow just as good as I remembered.
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Love Spam, fried or otherwise, hope we can bring it out, though I can get it in the local British food shop at an inflated but reasonable price :Smile:
 
matamoros said:
Love Spam, fried or otherwise, hope we can bring it out, though I can get it in the local British food shop at an inflated but reasonable price :Smile:
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Have you seen the price of a tin of Spam ( Specially Prepared American Meat), compared to what I renumber as a cheap option, its quite expensive now !!!! ( or am I living in the dark ages as my Mrs often tells me)

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It would be ludicrous to ban Spam from the UK as it is now produced in Denmark!

Likewise Corned Beef which is invariably produced in S. America.

I can't really see the danger in importing tinned meat into the EU that is either produced there in the first place or a different country and is also imported into the EU directly.
 
SteveLynn said:
Have you seen the price of a tin of Spam ( Specially Prepared American Meat), compared to what I renumber as a cheap option, its quite expensive now !!!! ( or am I living in the dark ages as my Mrs often tells me)
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It's usually on offer somewhere :Smile:
 
So tinned fish (tuna, salmon) is ok?
 
SPAM !!!!!!!! BLOODY HELL. i was in Cyprus training when the war started. we eventually sailed away after about 6 or 8 weeks (i forget, it was in the early 70's). our LSL turned round in the med and headed back to Cyprus. we lived on BLOODY SPAM for every meal for at least a week - never eaten the bloody stuff since.
never thought about it until i saw this thread.
 
When at school I had a part time job in a butchers ( mid 60's) I loved Corned Beef, he said it was awful stuff and when he was in the war, they laid cases of C. Beef to use so that the cars could drive out of the muddy trenches............. not sure if that was true, but, he was in the war and survived.......... why let the truth get in the way of a good story.
 
I had originally thought tinned stuff was OK but clearly not. Never mind. It’s hardly the end of the world as long as we know in advance and are prepared. I am not a law breaker so will plan accordingly. I voted remain but you don’t always get what you want in life and I’m certainly not going to risk fines or black marks on my records for the sake of it. Nick will have to go vegan for the day if we land on a bank holiday which he might moan about but tough, I will just top him up with cider or wine!
 
We’re pescatarian so only impact is not having milk for tea or coffee .... we tend to arrive late on Sat night so only impacts for a couple of days till we can get to a shop.
 
I use to love Spam fried in a buttie but have now progressed to bacon grill - same idea but a bit more of a smoked bacon flavour😀. Usually stock up at B&M bargins but won’t be taking it to France now☹️ Mind you don’t know when I will actually get there again!😢😢

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Yes b&m is the place to go for your spam..2 tins for £2.50 I think..
Love it ...it just sits in the cupboard on standby for a morning fry up.

#SPAM NEEDS ITS OWN THREAD
 
glenn2926 said:
I had the first tinned meat I’ve had in years just today, fried spam sandwiches for lunch, wow. Probably about as bad for me as possible but again, wow just as good as I remembered.
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Spam, spam,spam,spam, luverly spam. Remember Monty Python ?
Spam tried a promotion at the CAMC show 4 years ago giving away free tins of spam. They came round with mini spam fritters, blooming luverly.
Phil
 
I don’t think I’ve had Spam since I was a child and then it was Spam fritters. Mum used to gradually collect up a stock of things for our holiday trip in a static caravan or if we were flush, a chalet. Happy memories of the holidays, not so sure about the Spam fritters though! It was to eke out the pennies, never felt hard done by.

I grew up in Castle Cary, not far from where we are now and it was usually Weymouth(Rockley Sands) or somewhere exotic like Paignton. This is the main beach at Weymouth for old-mo ,probably about 1962 as my sister isn’t in it.

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I still call corned beef “desert chicken” from the old Rommel in the desert days
 
So - can we take condiments - for example ketchup, cook in sauces etc ? if not, can see us applying for a weight reduction on the motorhome :LOL::LOL:

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Instead of Spam try chopped ham and pork in batter .... mmmmmmm, lovely!
 
All this talk about spam reminds me of the bacon burger stuff we used to get in 24 hr ration packs, I used to really like that. Does anyone know if all our Army have left Germany yet? I know they were supposed to be out by 2020, if not, what will the EU do about the meat in ration packs? :giggle:
 
SteveLynn said:
When at school I had a part time job in a butchers ( mid 60's) I loved Corned Beef, he said it was awful stuff and when he was in the war, they laid cases of C. Beef to use so that the cars could drive out of the muddy trenches............. not sure if that was true, but, he was in the war and survived.......... why let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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My FIL (100 and still with us) fought in Burma in WW2 - he had a similar story to do with part of a aircraft runway (foundations) being built using cases of Corned Beef, which were then covered with a steel mesh and then cement. I too thought it was a story - oops maybe not. :unsure:

He also said that due to the heat the corned beef was generally poured out of the tins. Occasionally he'd come across some US units and the guys would swap the corned beef for SPAM, with both sides thinking they'd got a bargain :LOL:
 
Riverbankannie said:
No you cannot, and I suppose this includes things like chicken soup!

Legislation​

The current rules are laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2122, which repeals and replaces the previously applicable Commission Regulation (EC) No 206/2009. This Regulation clearly explains to the general public the rules concerning the introduction of animal products into the EU. Namely:

  • Travellers are not allowed to bring in meat, milk or their products, unless they are coming with less than 10 kilograms of these products from the Faeroe Islands or Greenland
  • There is also an exemption for powdered infant milk, infant food, and special foods or special pet feed required for medical reasons, if weighing less than 2 kilograms and provided that:
    • such products do not require refrigeration before opening
    • that they are packaged proprietary brand products for direct sale to the final consumer, and
    • the packaging is unbroken unless in current use
  • For fishery products (including fish and certain shellfish such as prawns, lobsters, dead mussels and dead oysters), travellers are allowed to bring in up to 20 kilograms or the weight of one fish if this is higher. However, there is no such weight restriction for travellers coming from the Faeroe Islands or Greenland
  • For other animal products, such as honey, live oysters, live mussels and snails for example, travellers are allowed to bring in up to 2 kilograms
  • These rules do not apply to animal products transported between the EU Member States, or for animal products coming from Andorra, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, San Marino or Switzerland.
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do you need a death certificate for the mussels?en masse or individually?


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