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Well, yes, but that's also from the expectation of higher standards. Combine that with the sheer mass of consumption for - pick a product, pork - and the costs soon become very high indeed.

Scary thought: very little of our actual total food produced and imported is actually examined. If we insisted on complete examination it would be prohibitively expensive.

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Pork is possibly a very poor example, because it has been incredibly cheap, relative to other options in the space, for several years running.