"US lobby groups for agriculture and pharmaceutical firms want UK standards changed to be closer to those of the US in a post-Brexit trade deal." https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47036119

This laxness appears in free trade negotiations where the second party to the country wants to forbid certain kinds of US agricultural goods and prepared foods and the US rebuttal is that that is protectionism. To be fair, there really is some real protectionism based solely on the protecting an economic sector now and then.