Four new trade topics were discussed at the latest World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting on food safety.
Attendees at the June meeting of the WTO Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary
It was history. On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, magnitude 9.0, struck 80 miles off the Northeast Coast of Japan, generating a series of tsunami waves,
The disposal of Fukushima’s contaminated water poses profound and potentially catastrophic risks to the environment and therefore seafood, according to scientists.
In August, 2023, the Tokyo Electric Power Company
India introduced more than half of the new trade concerns debated at a recent World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting.
Attendees at the November meeting of the WTO Committee on Sanitary
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Listeria contamination is causing meats and produce to be pulled off store shelves nationwide, with hospitalizations and deaths continuing to mount and new recalls being issued. Now the Food
The majority of issues discussed at a recent World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting had previously been raised, and only four new topics were discussed.
Delegates at the March meeting of
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While Poland and Salmonella have met before, in Sweden, eggs and Salmonella were less expected this year. There was a worrying rise in botulism incidents, and Fukushima was back
A record number of trade issues were raised at the latest World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting on safe food.
Delegates at the WTO Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures
The Group of Seven (G7) has urged recent restrictions imposed on Japanese food products from around Fukushima to be removed.
Trade ministers made the comments at a meeting in Sakai,
The majority of topics highlighted at a recent World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting on food safety had already been discussed before.
At the WTO Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS)
The European Commission is to lift import restrictions for food from Japan following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station in 2011.
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is proposing recommending a removal of import checks on products from Fukushima and nearby areas.
The FSA is reviewing the controls on imports of food
