13 Sep 2019 --- UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has a clear path to weakening key food regulations in pursuit of a UK-US trade deal, warns new analysis. Legal experts at the University of Sussex-based UK Trade Policy Observatory (UK TPO) caution that Britain faces the prospect of watered-down food regulations after Brexit, with Parliament having little say. Stringent regulation, which currently restricts some of the more controversial US food products from UK supermarket shelves, could be stripped away with minimal Parliamentary scrutiny through Statutory Instruments (SIs).