UK's biggest insulin manufacturer building up four-month stockpile in case of no-deal Brexit

[Northerner]

Britain’s biggest insulin supplier has said it is building up a four-month stockpile to ensure that diabetic patients are not left without vital medications in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Danish Novo Nordisk supplies just over half of the UK’s insulin and says it is “significantly” increasing reserves as the prospect of crashing out of the EU without a deal draws closer.

Diabetes charities have warned lives could be put at risk without reliable supplies of insulin as the UK imports all its stocks of the medications.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...tion-novo-nordisk-eu-ema-sanofi-a8522276.html

 

[mikeyB]

Ridiculous. Project fear strikes again. There are no tariffs on pharmacological products.

And I’m saying that as an inveterate remainer

 

[Bruce Stephens]

There are no tariffs on pharmacological products.

I don't think it's tariffs, it's other checks (and not necessarily of medicines). And the general chaos that (might possibly) occur if we really crash out hard (where there'll presumably be enough uncertainty that just about anything might happen, or not).

It doesn't take that much for miles long queues of lorries on the M20 as it is. Just some industrial action at one side or the other.