BRUSSELS TURF WAR COULD SCOTCH AMERICAN POULTRY EXPORT PLAN
July 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RESISTANCE from within the European Commission's health directorate general appears to have derailed plans to lift the de facto European Union (EU) ban on American poultry imports.
The Commission's industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen has been pushing for the scrapping of EU health rules banning chlorine treatment of poultry, which have effectively kept US exports out of Europe: the practice is common in America.
But officials within the responsible health directorate general drafting this reform hedged it with so many conditions, few US ...
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