MEPS DEFEND RIGHTS OF CITIZENS TO DEMAND INFORMATION ABOUT MEAT AND DAIRY LIVESTOCK FEED
February 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament claims to have struck a deal with European Union (EU) ministers over the rights of consumers (and hence environmental health officers) to demand information about feed consumed by meat and dairy farm animals. The issue is a contentious one, balancing health concerns about outbreaks of feed-linked disease such as BSE and dioxin poisoning with the rights of feed companies to protect the confidentiality of their ingredient formulae. As a result, legal battles have raged between environmental health interests and feed ...
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