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Political action is required to resolve the problems facing British animal feed businesses that export feed materials and finished feeds to the EU and Northern Ireland.
British feed companies are seeing lost revenue, delays and increased costs sending goods to Northern Irish and EU customers, warned industry body, the Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC), which referenced the
onset of such difficulties in emailed comments to this site in January.
The export situation has deteriorated [since mid-January] in that what we initially considered were teething problems are now seen as issues over non-harmonised interpretation of EU sanitary and phyto-sanitary requirements and some extremely complex issues surrounding the export of feeds containing animal byproducts, James McCulloch, head of feed sector, AIC, told us today.