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Food: Occupied Territories

Commons · Question 33372 · Tabled 24 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 11 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Ayoub Khan

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department has taken to help prevent traders from declaring that food and drink imports produced by Israeli settlers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are Produce

Answer

Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 11 Mar 2025

The UK maintains high standards on the information that is provided on food labels so that consumers can have confidence in the food that they buy. The fundamental principle of food labelling rules is that information provided to the consumer must not mis...