Poland has ramped up controls of livestock imports amid the spread of a highly contagious animal foot-and-mouth disease in neighbouring Germany, Warsaw said late on Tuesday.
The UK has been accused of double standards by taking strong measures to protect farming in Britain from a Foot and Mouth outbreak in Germany - but leaving Northern Ireland apparently fully exposed.
The United Kingdom's agriculture industry was devastated by an outbreak of the disease in 2001, with over 2,000 farms affected and more than 6 million animals slaughtered.
The UK has become the latest country to ban the import of live animals and meat from Germany in an effort to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth disease after the virus was detected in a herd of water ...