Foot and Mouth disease ... update on ban on importing meat and dairy for personal use

This would have been major headline news at one time.

Vividly remember the 2001 outbreak. We had quite a few customers whose businesses were affected by it at the time, directly (farmers) and indirectly (tourism). Not good 😕
 
I lived up in Northumberland back in 2001 and there was a burning pyre a mile of so away from us near Cresswell. Mostly the smoke went out over the North Sea but when it didn't it was like living next to a permanent BBQ. :(
 
GMJ said:
I lived up in Northumberland back in 2001 and there was a burning pyre a mile of so away from us near Cresswell. Mostly the smoke went out over the North Sea but when it didn't it was like living next to a permanent BBQ. :(
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I remember driving through Northumberland at the time and yes it was a dreadful sight.
 
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Has anybody had their van stopped and searched with products confiscated at any border including entering the UK?

Nothing on Brittany Ferries website.
 
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Boris7 said:
Back in 2001 I got stopped and searched for meat products when entering Spain at Bilbao, they confiscated a pack of smoky bacon crisps 😁
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Back then Kev Smoky Bacon Crisps were suitable for vegetarians as they contained no Pork products, Cheese and Onion however were not as they contained animal Rennet.

It probably wouldn't have been worth arguing the point though! 😁
 
mariesnowgoose said:
This would have been major headline news at one time.

Vividly remember the 2001 outbreak. We had quite a few customers whose businesses were affected by it at the time, directly (farmers) and indirectly (tourism). Not good 😕
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Waffle alert!!

Indeed it would have and I was working for a, back then, big tyre company working with the farmers. Lots had become "friends" as such as you get a good relationship going with them, being brought up on and around farms.
Sadly I lost a few due to them "unliving" themselves as they just watched everything taken away from them, and the black smoke was through out major parts of my area.
My "boss" was a typical booted n suited Londoner ( nothing against Londoners!!) and naturally the last thing to be sold was big expensive tyres. At--well it was my last then--- sales meetings, was my turn and as I got up to get to the lectern, he said----
Well apparently the lack of sales are due to mad cows disease, but who here as ever seen a cow driving a tractor!
So I just tore up my figure's and speech and delivered the facts on losing the famers to shotgun and rat poison and sat back down.

I was found another position shortly after that.
 
Moped said:
Has anybody had their van stopped and searched with products confiscated at any border including entering the UK?

Nothing on Brittany Ferries website.
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Yep, came back from France via Newhaven a couple of days ago and was stopped. They said the restrictions had been in place for about six to eight weeks, but hadn't been well publicised - had a look in the fridge, reckoned I was a bit over the 2kg allowance, but let me keep the stuff because pretty much all of it had been produced in France and the outbreaks of F&M and swine flu have been mostly reported elsewhere. Just told me to make sure that I didn't feed any of it to any animals, and if I chucked out any of the meat or dairy (and the packaging) to make sure it was in a proper domestic bin, not a street litter bin where it'd be more vulnerable to getting nicked by foxes and the like. But yes, agree that this would have been headline news a while back and rightly so - I remember the F&M outbreak and the devastation it caused.
 
SouthernTribby said:
Yep, came back from France via Newhaven a couple of days ago and was stopped. They said the restrictions had been in place for about six to eight weeks, but hadn't been well publicised - had a look in the fridge, reckoned I was a bit over the 2kg allowance, but let me keep the stuff because pretty much all of it had been produced in France and the outbreaks of F&M and swine flu have been mostly reported elsewhere. Just told me to make sure that I didn't feed any of it to any animals, and if I chucked out any of the meat or dairy (and the packaging) to make sure it was in a proper domestic bin, not a street litter bin where it'd be more vulnerable to getting nicked by foxes and the like. But yes, agree that this would have been headline news a while back and rightly so - I remember the F&M outbreak and the devastation it caused.
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I must have missed the bit about a 2kg allowance. 🤔
 
Sharon the Cat said:
I must have missed the bit about a 2kg allowance. 🤔
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The new regulations apply from today 12th April and it states all products including sandwiches with no exceptions or any personal allowance. Nothing on the Brittany Ferries website relating to this.

Plant based products are excluded from the order so might be an idea to purchase soya or oat milk and plant based spreads (plant based cheese forget it!) if planning a late night snack following a late ferry crossing.
 
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Yes, this was on Wednesday, and the inspector said that there was a 2kg personal allowance and that as I was over it (even just by a few grams) then strictly speaking he'd have had to confiscate the lot, not just the excess. As it was, I handed over a half-used bottle of milk (bought from a UK supermarket before I left, because I like skimmed milk in my tea and not keen on the UHT stuff) and some slices of pork loin that had been opened and not used, and he let me keep the rest in the fridge (subject to instructions about not chucking the wrappers anywhere where they could be got at by local wildlife). Must have tightened it up since then, if there's no allowance at all now.
 
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