Inside a Brexit border control post - in pictures

  • An Animal & Plant Health Agency (Apha) employee inspects a pear at a border control post at DP World's London Gateway port in Stanford-le-Hope, Essex. All photos: Bloomberg
    An Animal & Plant Health Agency (Apha) employee inspects a pear at a border control post at DP World's London Gateway port in Stanford-le-Hope, Essex. All photos: Bloomberg
  • EU food imports to the UK are about to get more expensive and complicated as the British government implements the Brexit deal
    EU food imports to the UK are about to get more expensive and complicated as the British government implements the Brexit deal
  • A halved avocado in the Apha inspection area
    A halved avocado in the Apha inspection area
  • A note is left on potatoes to be inspected
    A note is left on potatoes to be inspected
  • An Apha sticker machine
    An Apha sticker machine
  • A Plant Health & Seeds Inspectorate sign
    A Plant Health & Seeds Inspectorate sign
  • Lorries carrying shipping containers are driven across the dockside at London Gateway port, operated by DP World Plc, in Stanford-le-Hope
    Lorries carrying shipping containers are driven across the dockside at London Gateway port, operated by DP World Plc, in Stanford-le-Hope