{"id":643328,"date":"2026-06-17T10:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643328\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:21:09","slug":"henfield-abattoir-owner-furious-at-food-standards-agency-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643328\/","title":{"rendered":"Henfield abattoir owner &#8216;furious&#8217; at Food Standards Agency charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many farmers who are reliant on those abattoirs which remain say they want to see more support for the sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Andrew Compton, a sheep farmer from Redhill, Surrey, who uses Smith&#8217;s abattoir,  says losing it would be &#8220;catastrophic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Compton says for some abattoirs, the high court ruling comes &#8220;too late&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The damage has been done,&#8221; he said,  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The forms of redress to that overcharging still remain unclear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think there will be abattoirs that have fallen by the wayside, since the advent of this ruling that are not retrievable, so the damage is done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aims&#8217; veterinary director Peter Hewson says &#8220;immediate action&#8221; is needed &#8220;to address the dire situation medium-sized slaughterhouses find themselves in following the increase in charges this year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hewson says: &#8220;Any delay will result in businesses closing as a direct result of FSA&#8217;s unlawful charges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It may be many months before the abattoirs are reimbursed by the FSA &#8211; a bill that could run into millions of pounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many farmers who are reliant on those abattoirs which remain say they want to see more support for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-643328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}