24 May 2017 --- A new report examining the serious pressure the UK’s food manufacturing sector will be under if the labor supply of European Union migrants dries up after Brexit, urges that safeguards be put in place now to stave off a worsening of the crisis. The sector, already squeezed by shortages, will worsen, and will need to recruit up to 140,000 new workers by 2024, according to the new briefing paper co-produced by Manchester Metropolitan University for the Food Research Collaboration, an initiative of the Centre for Food Policy at City, University of London.
