Not really. It’s more centuries of arseholes adulterating their products leading to pretty tight food standards and labelling laws vs. lots of lobbying from all directions.
A lot of that lobbying nowadays is for/against US or other food standards mainly because by European standards, you don’t really appear to have any and your agri-businesses are very aggressive in their desire to sell MOAR STUFF!
Those laws do then lend themselves very nicely to attempts to stifle new products or squash competitors but the alternative is a free for all where say British manufacturers produce a “pork sausage” consisting of 95% bread and 5% “animal matter” which is what the Yes Minister/Prime Minister clip was referencing, or bread that is 30% plaster, etc.
