Seafood Imports - Legislation and Official Procedures - Questions and Answers

Summary

Import controls are in place to protect human and animal health. Food originating outside the UK may have been produced to different standards to the ones in force throughout the EU. Border controls ensure that only food that meets national food safety legislation, and therefore poses no risk to public health, is allowed into the country. Examples of food that would be stopped at the border are fish containing unacceptable levels of mercury, or shellfish containing natural toxins.

Author

• I. Bartolo

Publication date

01 August 2010