The merchandise you are not allowed to convey into Britain from the EU underneath new guidelines

Individuals arriving in Britain from the EU and different European international locations are now not allowed to usher in a variety of meat and dairy merchandise – together with cheese.

It’s a part of a transfer by the UK authorities to try to cease the unfold of foot-and-mouth illness from overseas.

The brand new guidelines, launched on Saturday 12 April, imply travellers face restrictions on meat from pigs, cows, sheep and goats, in addition to dairy gadgets akin to milk, butter, cheese and yoghurt.

Additionally they embrace gadgets like sandwiches stuffed with meat or dairy merchandise, together with cured meats and uncooked meats – no matter whether or not they’re packed or packaged or whether or not they have been purchased at duty-free.

There are at the moment no reported circumstances of foot-and-mouth illness (FMD) within the UK, with the final outbreak in 2007, however there have been confirmed circumstances this 12 months in Germany in January, and in Hungary and Slovakia final month.

The UK authorities had already banned “private imports of cattle, sheep and different ruminants and pig meat in addition to dairy merchandise” from these three international locations “in response to confirmed outbreaks of FMD”.

The listing of banned gadgets has now been prolonged to such merchandise from the entire of the EU in addition to Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

This is every thing it’s worthwhile to know in regards to the restrictions.

What does the ban embrace?

The federal government says you’ll be able to’t convey the next merchandise again from the international locations listed above:

• Pork
• Beef
• Lamb
• Mutton
• Goat
• Venison
• Different merchandise constituted of these meats, akin to sausages
• Milk and dairy merchandise like butter, cheese and yoghurt

The federal government has mentioned you’ll be able to usher in as much as 2kg per individual of powdered toddler milk, toddler meals, or particular meals wanted for medical causes, however provided that it doesn’t must be refrigerated earlier than use, and is in branded, unopened packaging – except it’s in present use.

There are additionally pet meals restrictions:

The federal government says you can’t usher in pig, cow, sheep, goat and deer merchandise that aren’t for human consumption, like merchandise made with pig meat.

You’ll be able to usher in as much as 2kg per individual of particular pet meals wanted for medical causes, so long as it doesn’t must be refrigerated earlier than use, and is in branded, unopened packaging.

In case you are bringing in another permitted animal merchandise, akin to pet meals made with rooster meat, they have to be both commercially packaged with the producer’s identify and handle or have an animal by-product industrial doc.

What can folks proceed to usher in?

• Fish
• Poultry, akin to rooster, duck, goose and another merchandise constituted of these meats
• Different animal merchandise like eggs and honey

And from the EU, Switzerland or Liechtenstein folks can convey within the following as effectively:

• Fruit
• Greens
• Nuts and seeds

What occurs when you break the foundations?

Banned meals merchandise might be taken away and destroyed when you declare them to Border Power officers at customs.

The federal government warns that you can be prosecuted if you don’t declare banned meals merchandise.

Border Power can take away your merchandise in the event that they suppose you’ve got introduced one thing into the nation illegally or introduced in an excessive amount of of a restricted product.

They’ll additionally throw away any gadgets, together with clothes or baggage, which they imagine has been contaminated by the product – for instance with blood from meat.

What’s foot-and-mouth illness and what has been taking place in different international locations?

The most recent restrictions are to “defend the well being of British livestock, the safety of farmers, and the UK’s meals safety”, mentioned the Division for Setting, Meals and Rural Affairs.

Foot-and-mouth is a viral illness which causes fever and mouth blisters in cloven-hoofed ruminants akin to cattle, swine, sheep and goats.

It poses no danger to people, however outbreaks usually result in commerce restrictions akin to those in place now.

In 2001, the illness led to the culling of tens of millions of animals within the UK and the lack of billions of kilos, prompting a disaster in British farming.

There have been 2,000 circumstances, however every case meant a farm having to kill and burn all its livestock, with greater than six million sheep, cattle and pigs slaughtered.

The primary outbreak in Germany for 36 years occurred in January, resulting in the precautionary slaughter of 55 goats, sheep and cattle on a farm in Brandenburg.

Stories of foot-and-mouth emerged in Hungary in mid-March, with greater than 3,500 cattle slaughtered within the nation’s northern county of Gyor-Moson-Sopron.

After the outbreak in Hungary, circumstances have been then reported throughout 5 farms in southern Slovakia, prompting the nation to declare an emergency.

On 2 April, Hungary deployed troopers and launched new disinfection measures within the northwest shut to frame areas to comprise the outbreak.

Austria then closed 21 crossings into Hungary and two into Slovakia a day later.