Tougher visas will stifle industry, warn experts

摘要

Stricter visa requirements for overseas nationals - introduced last year - will threaten the global competitiveness of the UK's food industry by barring high-level employees, experts have warned.Given the international nature of food and drink research and development (R&D), they could even force some firms to relocate their R&D overseas resulting in a "brain drain", the Institute of Food Science &Technology (IFST) and others have claimed.