MEXICO AND EU WORK HARD TO STRIKE DEAL ON ORGANIC MEAT STANDARDS
August 1st, 2016
MEXICAN and European Union (EU) officials are negotiating to strike a deal on organic meat standards that will avoid a halt in EU exports of organic meat to Mexico. The talks come as the EU and Mexico are trying to forge a general agreement on trading organic food products.
Hugo Fragoso, director of the agricultural and fisheries safety department of Mexico’s secretariat (ministry) of agriculture, livestock, rural development, fisheries and food, warned that an existing recognition of EU organic standards by Mexico was due to expire in May 2017.
“If we ...
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