Denmark bans sale of yeasty Marmite spread

Denmark has already threatened to reimpose national border checks to control immigration, now it has moved to expel the savoury spread Marmite.

Danish officials say the product breaks food safety laws because of its added vitamins and minerals. The Danish authorities must give their permission for products with such additives to be sold.

Over the past few years several well known items including breakfast cereals have been banned.Already a shop in Copenhagen has been ordered to remove jars of Marmite from its shelves, says the BBC's Europe correspondent, Chris Morris, in Brussels. He says outraged expats in the country are already threatening a campaign of civil disobedience and there are suggestions that the Danish ban could break European law.