Following conversations and meetings with Defra, AIC can confirm that businesses in the food sector can apply for government-funded lateral flow technology (LFT/LFD) to test asymptomatic workers. The details - sent to us from from Defra - explain how to apply and what conditions need to be met.
Following previous notice of Defra's consultation on urea, and our position statement (FR20-022) the matter has been extensively debated within the Fertiliser Executive with the input and support of the Sector's Agriculture and Environment Committee.
In 2018, the AHDB formally consulted upon a new five year strategy to inform its future activity and prioritisation of work for each of its sectors. The AIC provided a comprehensive response to that consultation, and in December 2020 the AHDB announced its five year strategy following that consultation process.
As covered in S21-002 there is not currently a clear timeline when equivalence will be legally confirmed, so it is not known when GB seed can be exported to NI and the EU.
As noted in S20-032 the new temporary experiment allows licensed inspectors to inspect Pre-Basic and Basic seed rather than requiring official inspectors.
Please find the results of the fresh samples taken during the 2020 harvest. The contaminants project, of which AIC is a partner, is entering its final year in 2021 though AHDB have proposed, due to impacts of Covid-19 on the workloads and company resources, to extend the current project by a further 12 months.
The International Committee Road Transport association (ICRT), which includes GMP International, Qualimat Transport, Ovocom, QS, EFISC-GTP, AIC, and AMA-Marketing, has launched a new website for the International Database Transport (for) Feed (IDTF) including new cleaning regimes for inland waterways transport.
Due to the ongoing challenges faced by Covid-19, the Department for Transport has announced there will be a temporary relaxation of the enforcement of the retained drivers' hours rules in England, Scotland and Wales for the general haulage of goods in Great Britain.
