Shock warning reveals illegal meat being sold on ‘most UK high streets’

There is interest astir nutrient being imported astatine Dover (Image: Getty)

A elder health official has warned that perchance diseased amerciable meat is being sold successful UK shops.

Lucy Manzano, caput of the Dover Port Health Authority, says the nutrient has not been done the indispensable wellness checks, and is present disposable connected "most precocious streets".

Ms Manzano told MPs: "DEFRA person continually stated that determination are robust controls successful place. There are not. They don't exist."

She added that the Government had not provided "any confirmation of however nutrient would beryllium controlled astatine the constituent it arrives, oregon much importantly, betwixt the constituent it arrives and the inspection installation that is accessed 22 miles across".

Potentially diseased nutrient could beryllium being sold successful UK precocious thoroughfare shops, an adept has warned (Image: Getty)

The authoritative besides said that she had presented grounds to officials "to show that the strategy brought successful spot to safeguard this state from a biosecurity constituent of view… is not working".

It comes aft the Government insisted that the caller strategy of post-Brexit borderline checks, which were activated successful April 2024, volition guarantee that the UK is kept disease-free, the BBC reports.

New regulations mean that checks connected commercialized imports bash not hap successful Dover, but 22 miles distant astatine a borderline power station successful Sevington instead.

But a reported deficiency of enforcement has led to interest that galore lorries are not turning up for checks.

Officials are acrophobic astir lorries arriving into Dover being checked decently (Image: Getty)

An enquiry has been launched by Parliament's Environment Select Committee into the caller rules and whether the required tests are being carried out.

Outbreaks of deadly carnal diseases successful Europe of precocious person meant wellness authorities, Government officials and cultivation officials are disquieted astir whether they could get successful the UK.

Earlier this week, information showed that astir 100 tonnes of amerciable nutrient was seized astatine Dover past year.

DEFRA has said that the Government "will ne'er waver successful its work to support the UK's biosecurity", and insisted that ministers were moving with enforcement agencies.