How to comply with latest MCA requirements?

[Trevethan]

Just read the article on the PBO news page about fresh regulation to combat the spread of foot and mouth by British recreational sailors. Just how will you guys comply?

I can see how bringing sarnies ashore at Cherbourg may be a good idea, just in case some kind of wandering pig or cow chances down to the supermarche where one is filling up the wine cellar and makes off with a crust. but the last sentence is a bit of a worry.

"The MCA statement reads: "meat and meat products, milk and dairy products sourced within Great Britain for consumption onboard any vessel including recreational craft should not be landed abroad, nor any waste stemming from the consumption of these products."


Do you have to anchor up off shore to dose yourself with laxative, and hope the holding tank has sufficient capacity for you and all the crew to flush any meat consumption related waste away?

Will te gendarmerie be patrolling public toilets near marinas checking passports -- and saying "ah no monsieur you cannot crap ici unless you can prove you have not eaten any tinned spam bought from Tesco's in the past three days....

At least here in Singapore they let you use the loo when I came back from the UK, just fine you if you don't flush it.

 

[simonfraser]

just take a plastic bag with you when abroad, and do a "poop and scoop" /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

regulation overkill, it will get even worse, as long as people are not expected to think for themselves.

one of the joys of sailing, you go out there, now it's your problem.

 

[alldownwind]

Similar regs applied in the last big outbreak. I and my son caught the Dover-Calais ferry as foot passengers, bound for Dunkerque to deliver a boat back to Ramsgate. On the ferry, we read the warning notice about not taking food out of the country and spent the rest of the ferry trip worrying about the array of sandwiches and rolls that wifey had provided for our sail home! Fortunately nobody at the Calais terminal noticed our guilty expressions as we slunk through.......

 

[PeterGibbs]

The practical comment would be that unless you or any of the crew have had contact with or recent exposure to any farm, you are most unlikely to be the carrier of F & M. If this is not the case you need to take specific action. Taking only processed food aboard would add to the biosecurity.

As you appreciate, many of these injunctions, this included, are
gold plated. Look to what is happening with other mass transport systems for the clue as to what the authorities are really thinking, and the state of the recent outbreak. Finally, there is an element in this promulgation designed to reassure continentals that it will soon again be business as ususal for our farm exports, and who could argue with that?

One can be responsible and compliant without eviscerating all human/sailing activity!

PWG