Most of the UK high roads, illegal meat, officials say

A senior health officer said that efforts to keep meat with potential disease from Britain are being reduced by Braxit Border Check.

The boss of the Dover Port Health Authority said that illegal meat, which has not been done through proper health check -up, was now available on the “tallest roads” in the UK.

In recent months, European outbreaks of deadly animal diseases have left health officials, Whitehall officials and many people in the farming industry that they are concerned about the danger in Britain.

But the government has earlier emphasized the new system of Brexit Border Check which came into force in April last year, it is capable of keeping Britain disease-free.

Under the braxit system, the investigation on commercial vehicles is not done in the dover itself.

Instead, drivers are ordered to travel from a border control post in Savington, 22 miles (35 km) away.

But critics have warned that many laws are failing to turn for checks only due to lack of enforcement.

The Parliament’s Environment Selection Committee has now launched an inquiry whether the system is working.

Lucy Manzano, head of the Dover Port Health Authority, told the committee MPs that the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DFRA) was eliminating the effectiveness of the system.

He said: “Defra has constantly stated that there are strong control in the place. There are no. They are not present.”

He said that the department “failed to provide any confirmation of how the food would be controlled at that point, or even more importantly, it comes between the point and the inspection facility which is 22 miles away Has arrived “.

Ms. Manzano said that she had provided evidence to the government to “demonstrate that this country is not working to secure this country from the point of view of bio -safety”.

Deefra recently refused to respond to the freedom of information request from the BBC’s contribution program, asking how many vehicles were failing for a check in Savington.

Ms. Manzano claimed that illegal meat has now become very normal in high road shops – and that it is difficult for consumers to run through proper health check -up for the product they are buying. Has gone.

It is understood that the view inside Deefra is that post-breaks are working as they should do.

Earlier this week, data showed that about 100 tonnes of illegal meat were seized at Dover’s port last year.

Deefra said that the government “will never be in its duty to protect Britain’s bio -safety” and insisted that it was working effectively with the enforcement agencies.

The BBC news investigation found last year that the unprecedented level of seizure had feared more organized criminal activity.

A uniform health check -up facility for one in savington is present on the site in the dover, but it is understood that the government chose not to use it due to concerns about possible traffic queues on the border.

Ms. Manzano said that the decision was “not based on bio -safety” and said that “the great purpose of import control is to keep out the bad goods and contain it at the first point of entry”.

Last month, the UK government introduced strict restrictions on imports of German meat, after an outbreak of legs and oral disease.

But Ms. Manzano said that failures in the IT system introduced since Brexit meant that products that should have passed through the check allowed to enter the UK independently for “at least six days”. Went.

When the current system was introduced last year, the government also gave funding to the Dover Port Health Authority directly to check the spots on small vehicles on the border.

Statistics show that the vast majority of illegal meat seized in Britain are caught through those spot checks.

But Ms. Manzano said that the funding was going to exit in seven weeks and the check would have to be stopped without further government cash.

The government’s discussions are going on how to investigate the border border.

It is understood that the decision to put a check in savings has probably have a direct negative impact on how much money is lost to the Dover Port Health Authority.

A Diffra spokesperson refused to comment on the ongoing expenses decisions.