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Toby Baker runs a wholesale meat business in the West Country. He has close family ties with farming and also operates a successful retail shop. Over the years Bakers of Nailsea Ltd. have built a sound reputation for quality and service, with openness and plain speaking as an essential ingredient of the business.

 

The company has a policy of carefully examining all statutory requirements and government enforcement methods. This is because of the complexity of the regulations, the questionable competence of officials and the authoritarian culture in which these people operate.

 

The well known tendency of UK officials to over – interpret regulations and their frequent attempts to bully abattoir operators into compliance with non-statutory requirements are very real problems in the experience of the country.

 

Toby Baker has over many years adopted a policy of contesting both the basic assumptions about health that underpin fresh meat health legislation and in particular has, from its outset, robustly criticized the Meat Hygiene Service in every aspect of its activities.

 

Very often this has attracted severe criticism, not necessarily from the official bodies concerned, but frequently from colleagues with the industry. Toby does not claim spectacular success in promoting his ideas and policies although recent proposals to change EU regulations (properly handled) and recent severe independent criticism of the Meat Hygiene Service do perhaps bring the debate nearer to territory he has occupied alone over the years.

 

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Website was last updated 26th March 2010

 

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