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Making Sense of Foot and Mouth

The re-emergence of foot and mouth disease in the UK last Friday is a tragedy, most of all for the blameless farmers who have seen their livestock struck down, but also for livestock farmers across the country; the meat trade, from hauliers and abattoirs to butchers and pie-makers; rural tourism businesses; and everyone who enjoys [...]

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Understanding identification marks

To decode your food, use The Tracing Paper’s Food Tracer – a searchable list of all UK identification codes.
What are those oval codes?
If you buy meat – or fish, milk, cheese or any food produced from or by an animal – in the European Union, you should find an oval symbol like this somewhere on [...]

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