High Court quashes FSA slaughterhouse charging regime as unlawful

The High Court has ruled that elements of the Food Standards Agency’s charging regime for official controls at slaughterhouses and abattoirs were unlawful, in a legal case thought to change the way inspection costs are recovered from the meat industry.
The judicial review was brought by the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers and the British Meat Processors Association, which challenged the basis on which the regulator calculates and recovers charges for food hygiene and safety contr