It would appear BJ doesn't know what he is talking about...
In the final hustings meeting, he brandished a kipper and said that the manufacturer, because of EU rules, had to wrap the kipper in plastic and put in a plastic ice pillow to keep it fresh.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...llows-exposed/
These are UK rules, not EU - the EU does not regulate the sales of smoked fish to consumer, only business to business.
Quote:
Boris Johnson's claims that the EU forces smoked kipper producers to pack their fish with an "ice pillow" are false, with the relevant food safety rules being written in Britain rather than Westminster.
Mr Johnson wielded a packaged smoked kipper above his head at the final Tory leadership hustings on Wednesday and promised to cut Britain free of Brussels red tape after Brexit.
He was reportedly handed the kipper by a newspaper editor, who claimed he had been sent the fish by an Isle of Man fishmonger who complained of the cost of the Brussels-imposed ice pillow.
But the rules that force the deployment of the pillow are British rules. The EU does not have the power to regulate the sales of smoked fish, only fresh.
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The EU has broad rules saying that food should be safe but nothing asking for the ice pillow - that is a British addition designed to stop Listeria, a problem with smoked products.