EU AND SWITZERLAND STRIKE FOOD HEALTH CONTROL AGREEMENT
November 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SWITZERLAND will participate in the European Union's (EU) rapid alert system for contaminated and unhealthy food products RASFF. This means warnings about food identified in Switzerland as potentially dangerous will be circulated around the EU - important given the volumes of Swiss-sourced food exported to member states. Meanwhile, Switzerland - which does not want to join the EU - will harmonise its border health controls on pets with other European countries. *http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/rapidalert/index_en.htm
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SWITZERLAND will participate in the European Union's (EU) rapid alert system for contaminated and unhealthy food products RASFF. This means warnings about food identified in Switzerland as potentially dangerous will be circulated around the EU - important given the volumes of Swiss-sourced food exported to member states. Meanwhile, Switzerland - which does not want to join the EU - will harmonise its border health controls on pets with other European countries. *http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/rapidalert/index_en.htm
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