One in six Americans fall ill every year from the food they eat (according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Will Boris Johnson’s government stick to keeping us relatively healthy by making legal commitments to maintaining food standards in a UK-EU trade deal, as British farmers, supermarkets and consumers want it to? But no minister dare admit the obvious – that no trade deal with the US will pass US Congress unless there are major concessions to American big food. The US food trade associations that represent big food have enormous lobbying power. But that means food standards have to be the same so that zero-tariff food is interchangeable.

Source: The Guardian June 28, 2020 07:07 UTC