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According to your online article Food from UK banned from luggage in no-deal Brexit, an EU commission spokeswoman told Connexion the EU has the highest food safety standards in the world and free circulation of animals and food needs a stringent system of shared controls.

Tell her to look at the way French farmers store their grain. This method of grain storage is illegal in the UK.

She should visit farms in France and then in the UK. There is a difference!

Martin Carley, Yonne

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