British supermarkets and restaurant chains have pledged to clean up their act on the labelling of sausages, pies and ready-made meals containing pork from foreign sources.
Labelling laws allow products containing pork, chicken, beef and lamb reared overseas to be marked as British as long as it is processed in that country.
According to Britain’s Daily Mail, famous British products such as Melton Mowbray pork pies and Lincolnshire sausages have, in the past, been made with foreign pork from Ireland and the Continent. Supermarkets Asda, Tesco, Sainbury’s and Whitbread recently joined Marks & Spencer, the Co-op, Morrisons and Waitrose in signing on to a voluntary code that promised more honest labels.