Testing, tracking and tracing ingredients is expensive but not testing will cost retailers, processors, British farmers and consumers much more.

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It would be so easy for the 25, 000 people in the UK who do not know they have HIV to become 50, 000 as a result of non-targeted testing and the demise of contact-tracing.

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