aodhan connolly of the ni retail consortium, fears the impact on consumers could be dramatic.ficate, costs around £200 once you've factored in things like vet's time and everything else that goes with it, and that needs to be for every product of animal origin. now, on a usual supermarket load you're talking about 1,400 — 1,500 different products, and at a really busy time. so coming up to christmas, maybe 400 or 500 of those would need an export health certificate. are we potentially talking thousands of pounds, tens of thousands of pounds extra per shipment? unless we get derogations, unless we get mitigations we are talking tens of thousands of pounds per load in the worst—case scenario. we can't afford it as an industry that's high—volume, low—profit margin. northern ireland consumers can't afford it. and there's a very simple equation: if the new costs are higher than the profit margin, then either the product or the business model will become unviable. so, in the worst case scenario, aodhan connolly fears that some supermarkets would have to consider whether northern ire