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How new food rules could ruin restaurants

Stricter food rules won’t make you any safer – but they could ruin many small restaurants

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issue 17 August 2013

The coalition said they would tame health and safety, which would be great for those of us in the food -business. But they, like the public, like to blame Brussels, and the problem is not with Europe, or not often. EU law is basically Napoleonic, and sensible. It places the onus on the operators to ensure safety, and to be able to prove that what they do is safe.

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