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food safety | SPS
European commission launches world’s first system for classifying and banning endocrine disruptors against a barrage of criticism
Seemingly insurmountable differences in food standards are threatening to sink trade negotiations between the United States and the European Union.
The leaked TTIP text provides important insights into the direction of the trade talks, and raises alarm bells for advocates of fair and sustainable food and farming systems.
The Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) could mean that genetically modified salmon will be sold as food to Europeans.
A dispute over the way Canadian slaughter plants wash beef and pork carcasses could prevent Canadian beef and pork producers from taking advantage of new market access granted under the pending Canada-Europe trade agreement.
But that meat must be produced according to EU standards,
which stipulate no growth hormones.
The latest TTIP proposals would allow ‘regulatory cooperation’ to affect the implementation of EU chemical laws
Deal’s fate rests on ‘talks about talks’ between senior officials as EU demands greater flexibility on imports.
The third round of negotiations between Georgia and EFTA will be held in February 2016.
'Death on a plate: TTIP, meat inspections and your food' features the testimony of a mother whose daughter died from eating contaminated meat and comments by a government meat inspector and others in the food industry.
