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'Please don't bring back your food' - 草榴社区 make plea to tourists in Cyprus following FMD outbreak

Fines of 拢5,000 could be waiting for those who try to bring back personal food items like sandwiches, cheese, cured meats, raw meats or milk into the UK from countries with confirmed foot-and-mouth cases

Chris Brayford
clock 鈥� 2 min read
NBA chair Ben Harman said: "The foot-and-mouth outbreak we suffered in 2001 cost in excess of six million animals, which was likely caused by contaminated food products being brought back into the UK from abroad. So please, at this time, do not bring back any food products back from Cyprus."
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NBA chair Ben Harman said: "The foot-and-mouth outbreak we suffered in 2001 cost in excess of six million animals, which was likely caused by contaminated food products being brought back into the UK from abroad. So please, at this time, do not bring back any food products back from Cyprus."

草榴社区 have urged holidaymakers to help protect the UK's biosecurity and farming businesses by not bringing back food from countries with cases of foot-and-mouth. On February 20, the first case of...

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