A new consultation has been opened on proposals to extend country of origin, and animal welfare labelling in the UK.
The UK government, the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and the Northern Ireland Executive are jointly publishing this consultation.
The proposals cover two areas: whether country of origin labelling should be mandatory, and on method of production labelling.
Specifically the consultation is seeking views on:
- a mandatory label covering pork, chicken and eggs applying to both domestic and imported products.
- a label with five tiers and underpinning standards that are primarily based on method of production, differentiating between products that fall below, meet and exceed relevant baseline UK welfare regulations.
This would apply to all unprocessed pork, chicken and eggs and certain prepacked and loose minimally processed products with pork, chicken or egg.