Ban on veggie ‘burgers’: plant-based products may lose meaty names in UK under EU law

The European parliament voted last month to ban the use of meaty terms such as ‘burger’ or ‘sausage’ on the labelling of plant-based products. Photograph: Vladimir Mironov/Getty Images

Calling plant-based food veggie “burgers” or “sausages” may be banned in the UK under the new trade agreement with the EU, the Guardian understands.

The Labour government secured a new sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement with the EU earlier this year, which allows British businesses to sell products including some burgers and sausages in the EU for the first time since Brexit.