Farmers demand assurance over food standard protections in trade deals

The issue of food standards for imported food is not going away as Secretary of State for Scotland Douglas Ross MP discovered when he addressed the NFUS conference in Glasgow.

Ewan Pate
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Farmers demand assurance over food standard protections in trade deals

The issue of food standards for imported food is not going away as Secretary of State for Scotland Douglas Ross MP discovered when he addressed the NFUS conference in Glasgow. He was repeatedly pushed...

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