Are you travelling home for the festive period? When you return to the UK, please don't bring any meat or meat products with you - they could carry diseases such as African swine fever.
Please don’t pack any fresh, dried or cured pork or wild boar meat to bring to the UK. This includes any pork or wild boar products such as sausages, bacon, meatballs, pate, ham, salami, jerky, bakwa and rougan, and products made of pork fat or wild boar fat, such as lardo and salo. It is illegal to bring these items into the UK from most countries outside of the EU.
African swine fever is a highly contagious devastating, fatal disease of pigs caused by a virus. There is no vaccine and the majority of affected pigs die. It does not affect humans. This virus survives for a long time in pork or wild boar meat and their products.
African swine fever has caused the deaths of millions of pigs worldwide and must be kept out of the UK. It is illegal to bring meat, cheese or milk from most countries outside of the EU.
Help protect the UK’s pigs and don’t bring meat or meat products into the UK. Declare any food items to customs.
For more information visit GOV.UK.