Britain's Pork Producers Fear Retailers May Provoke 'Next Food Scandal'
Britain's National Pig Association (NPA) has issued a statement saying that the group "is worried that the foundations for the next food scandal are already being laid by some retailers as they edge away from the shorter supply chains they promised following Horsegate."
NPA officials said they have "noted a number of pork, bacon and gammon lines being switched back to imported product, because it is marginally cheaper." NPA is not naming the retailers concerned "until it has had meetings with them to find out their reasons for retreating from their post-Horsegate promises to introduce short supply chains," the statement noted.