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One of UK’s favourite crisp flavours is BANNED by killjoy EU bureaucrats & branded unsafe
The ban has been pushed through in Ireland where the flavour is just as popular
BRITAIN has dodged a smoky-bacon crisp ban after killjoy Brussels bureaucrats went back on a pre-Brexit pledge.
Claims the much-loved flavour faced the axe were branded a pro-Brexit “myth” during the campaign which ended with Britain leaving the bloc in 2016.
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But the UK will soon be the only part of Europe where the crisp flavour is sold after remainers were caught telling porkies.
An EU ban on smoky-bacon flavour crisps will soon become reality after member states quietly gave the go-ahead for the prohibition late in April.
The move came despite pro-EU publications repeatedly claiming that Brussels’ attempts to ban certain flavours of crisps were false and part of a smear campaign.
Eurocrats have now confirmed that adding artificial smoke flavourings to food will be phased out over the next two years.
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A European Commission report claimed each method — devised as a healthier way of adding the flavouring to foods which cannot usually be smoked — could cause cancer.
But snack firms say no link to the disease has been conclusively proven.
Nannying Brussels has pushed through the ban even though the farming sector in Ireland — where smoky bacon is as popular as in the UK — could take a £26billion hit.
Former Tory Minister Kevin Foster said: “At a time when war is returning to Europe and serious economic challenges face us all, it is hard to believe anyone would think this ham-fisted move is a sensible one.
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