EU EXCLUDED NEW MEMBER STATES FROM FARM-TO-FORK LAW FOR FOUR YEARS
February 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
KEY reforms passed in 2004 designed to raise food production safety standards across the European Union (EU) were never extended to the 10 eastern and southern European countries that joined the EU that year. Some of these states were made subject to temporary special export controls regarding selling food into western Europe upon their joining the EU, but generally food from their manufacturers has flown into Britain and other established member states. Despite this, legal documents obtained by Environmental Health News show these new member ...
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