EUROPEAN COMMISSION GIVEN AUTHORITY TO STRIKE FOOD HEALTH DEALS
July 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has been urged to help European Union (EU) food regulators protect consumers against food-borne illnesses, by securing more sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreements with non-EU countries. These impose agreed health controls on food and animals imported into the EU. A wide-ranging communiqué from the EU Council of Ministers has stressed the importance of securing deals with "reciprocal exchange of information, scientific findings or methods of providing technical support to tackle problems" associated with food ...
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