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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
James Tapper

World’s largest food awards move judging panel from UK to Ireland to avoid Brexit red tape

Sally Ferns Barnes working at her award-winning  Woodstock Smokery in West Cork, Ireland
Sally Ferns Barnes working at her award-winning Woodstock Smokery in West Cork, Ireland. Photograph: @woodcocksmokery/instagram

The Great Taste awards are a British success story – the world’s largest food awards, celebrating the best products on the planet. But new post-Brexit import controls have forced the organisers to hold a judging panel outside the UK for the first time in the awards’ 30-year history.

On Sunday, judges from the Guild of Fine Foods panel will travel to County Tipperary in Ireland to spend three days tasting products that have become much harder to bring to the UK.

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