HORMONE TESTS
March 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE REQUIREMENT that 20 per cent of fresh beef meat and offal imported into the European Union from the USA should be tested for banned hormones is to be lifted, after EU vets approved a European Commission proposal. Checks were introduced in September 1999, when all imports had to be examined; it was later reduced to 20 per cent.
THE REQUIREMENT that 20 per cent of fresh beef meat and offal imported into the European Union from the USA should be tested for banned hormones is to be lifted, after EU vets approved a European Commission proposal. Checks were introduced in September 1999, when all imports had to be examined; it was later reduced to 20 per cent.
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