Colette Backwell
The Scottish Food and Drink Federation (SFDF), the body set up to promote Scotland’s many food and drink businesses, would not speculate what vote would best suit its members.
Dr Colette Backwell, director of the SFDF, said: “The SFDF’s job is to promote our industry’s interests, and to advocate the right conditions for our members to be successful and to grow.
“We are watching the debate closely to help our members across the UK to understand the implications, but we are politically independent and impartial and it would be inappropriate for us to express a view on an issue that is for the electorate to decide.”