I say to my fellow Committee member—dare I say my hon. Friend?—that that is worrying, and I will refer to those checks later. The Committee was astonished to learn that the cost of the checks—he will correct me if I am wrong—is in the region of £1 million to £2 million for one product line. Following the urgent question earlier today, we should be under no illusion that the cost of food will regrettably go up, but this is a wake-up call and an invitation to source more British meat going into frozen and processed foods, in particular. I believe that that will swiftly restore consumer confidence in those products.
Contamination of Beef Products
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 14 February 2013.
It occurred during Backbench debate
and
Debates on select committee report on Contamination of Beef Products.
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