VIETNAM POULTRY & SHRIMP
February 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament's environment committee has attacked the lifting of a ban on Vietnamese poultry and shrimp exports into the European Union (EU) because of concerns about the use of controlled antibiotics. MEP's accused the European Commission of acting in haste, without adequately checking whether controlled nitrofurans were still being widely used by Vietnamese shrimp and poultry producers. Indeed, MEP's accused EU health Commissioner David Byrne of "weakness" by agreeing to lift the ban without "first sending a scientific delegation from ...
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