(MENAFN) British meat producers have turned into the most recent victims of the increasing energy catastrophe that threatens to cause a dreadful scarcity of carbon dioxide gas, which is extensively utilized in the food and beverages sector.
Carbon dioxide is a by-product of fertilizer manufacturing that is employed to stun animals ahead of slaughter and for the packaging procedure that extends the shelf life of all meat, and in fizzy beverages and beer.
Nonetheless, increasing gas prices have resulted in a slowdown at a number of chemical plants in Europe that make fertilizer, with a key US producer being obligated to suspend operations at two manufacturing complexes in the country for an unclear period of time.
Nick Allen, the chief executive of the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said to the BBC after emergency discussions with the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra): “this crisis highlights the fact that the British food supply chain is at the mercy of a small number of major fertiliser producers – four or five companies – spread across northern Europe. We rely on a by-product from their production process to keep Britain’s food chain moving.”
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