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• Daily Mail: US farming is tasteless, toxic and cruel - and its monstrous practices have no place here: Radio 4’s veteran food presenter Sheila Dillon decries ministers' dangerous plans (19th September 2020)
  

• Huffington Post: Younger Leave Voters Want To Keep Or Boost EU Regulation After Brexit, Poll Suggests (18th May 2020)
  

• Reuters: U.S., UK launch post-Brexit video trade talks amid coronavirus recession (5th May 2020)
  

• The National: FACT CHECK: Will a US trade deal lead to chlorinated chicken in UK? (5th March 2020)
  

• The Grocer: US trade deal could 'do more harm than good' to UK economy (4th March 2020)
  

• The Sun: GM GRUB Supermarkets could be stocked with genetically modified food under future UK-US trade deal (3rd March 2020)
  

• Daily Mail: Britain could be served up GM 'Frankenfood' in US trade deal... (3rd March 2020)
  

• The Guardian: It's not just chlorinated chicken: five foods a US trade deal could bring to the UK (2nd March 2020)
  

• Politics Home: Ministers vow 'no compromise' on food standards in UK-US deal amid chlorine chicken fears (2nd March 2020)
  

• i:Post-Brexit trade talks: US deal could lead to genetically modified food entering UK markets (2nd March 2020)
  

• CityAM: Exclusive: Did someone say chicken? UK preparing to break with EU on food safety at WTO meeting (20th February 2020)
  

• Food Navigator: UK opens door to GM food imports as PM Johnson attacks 'hysterical fears' about US food standards (4th February 2020)
  

• The Guardian: Boris Johnson hints at allowing GM food imports from US (3rd February 2020)
  

• The i: Boris Johnson says Britain could import genetically modified food from US under Brexit trade deal (3rd February 2020)
  

• Reuters: Trump's 'massive' U.S.-UK trade deal faces big hurdles (27th January 2020)
  

• Food Ingredients First: Leaked documents: Expose on post-Brexit trade workings reveals US hopes to capitalize on lowered food safety standards (2nd December 2019)
  

• EurActiv: UK faced with EU-US biotechnology dilemma post-Brexit (28th November 2019)
  

• The Independent: Brexit: Boris Johnson moves to scrap environment safeguards to get deal with Trump (4th October 2019)
  

• The National: French ambassador to US says UK will suffer in post-Brexit trade deal (19th April 2019)
  

• EurActiv: British farmers fear US pressure on GMOs after Brexit (26th February 2019)
  

• Huffington Post: Here's What US Lobbyists Want Donald Trump To Get From A Post-Brexit Trade Deal (8th February 2019)
  

• The Scotish Farmer: After Brexit, genetic modification and growth promoters are on the US trade agenda (30th Januay 2019)
  

• iNews: America’s farming and car giants demand Trump administration bargain down UK standards for post-Brexit trade deal (21st January 2019)
  

• Business Insider: Trump tells May to abandon 'unjustified' food standards for Brexit trade deal (17th October 2018)
  

• Insurge Intelligence: Exposed: The Tory-Trump plan to kill food safety with Brexit chicken (20th February 2018)
  

• The Observer: Revealed: rightwing groups plot to ditch EU safety standards on food and drugs (17th February 2018)
  

• The Independent: Britain must scrap EU rules and allow chlorine-washed chicken if it wants post-Brexit trade deal with US, Trump adviser says (7th November 2017)
  

• Huffington Post: How Brexit Could Force UK Farmers To Lower Standards To Compete With US Meat Market (7th October 2017)
  

• STV: UK could strike free trade deals without Scottish consent (19th August 2017)
  

• Herald: No Scottish or Welsh government assurances in post-Brexit free trade deal talks (20th August 2017)
  

• Stratfor: Agriculture: Sowing the Seeds of Global Trade Competition (3rd August 2017)
  

• The Herald: Chlorinated Chicken Brexit: how feeble May endangers Scotland's food industry (30th July)
  

• BBC: Inside a US/UK trade deal (25th July 2017)
  

• BBC: UK and US to start talks on post-Brexit trade deal (24th July 2017)
  

• Sky News: Liam Fox 'open' to importing US chlorinated chicken (24th July 2017)
  

• The Independent: Brexit: Theresa May refuses to rule out weakening of food standards in trade deal with US (24th July 2017)
  

• in Press articles
  The Grocer: Three-quarters of Brits would reject US 'frankenfoods' (20th April 2017)
  

• Food Navigator: US deal will flood UK market with food people don't want, warns respected academic (24th February 2017)
  

• in Press articles
  FruitNet: US-UK deal threatens standards (30th January 2017)
  

• The Observer: Is chlorinated chicken about to hit our shelves after new US trade deal? (29th January 2017)
  

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