BEEF HORMONES
October 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission may have to wait for the US and Canada to lift retaliatory duties imposed over the European Union's hormone-treated meat ban after EU ministers agreed legislation on the subject. An unnamed US official dismissed EU claims the law fulfilled WTO demands for its ban to be based on risk assessments, claiming that the law's scientific foundation did not confirm any health threats.
THE EUROPEAN Commission may have to wait for the US and Canada to lift retaliatory duties imposed over the European Union's hormone-treated meat ban after EU ministers agreed legislation on the subject. An unnamed US official dismissed EU claims the law fulfilled WTO demands for its ban to be based on risk assessments, claiming that the law's scientific foundation did not confirm any health threats.
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