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WTO director general outlines importance of food safety in trade

By Cookson Beecher on April 26, 2019

Editor’s note: Joe Whitworth attended the forum earlier this week for Food Safety News and will be posting his coverage in the coming days.

As nations sell more and more food across international borders, food…
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The UK, as part of the EU, does not accept hormone-treated beef. This may change after Brexit.

Post-Brexit food safety under scrutiny by CIEH and FRC

By News Desk on September 8, 2018

Food standards and safety after the United Kingdom exits the European Union next year have been put under the spotlight again by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and Food Research Collaboration.

The Chartered Institute…
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FAO helps Belarus review industry, government food safety systems

By News Desk on August 10, 2018

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations are working to help improve the food safety system in Belarus.

Governmental representatives met for five days of talks in Minsk earlier this month to conclude…
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Petition seeks to change rules for ‘Product of USA’ meat labels

By Dan Flynn on June 28, 2018

Country of origin labeling for meat once involved lofty policy debates in Congress and international bodies like the World Trade Organization.

Now two influential groups have decided it would help domestic producers and consumers alike…
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Brazil vows to contest EU’s punitive poultry ban with WTO

By News Desk on April 26, 2018

The European Union is punishing Brazil for alleged deficiencies in the country’s control system by banning imports from 12 BRF S.A. poultry plants.

Brazil is the world’s second-largest poultry producer, and its Agriculture Minister Blairo…
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Food safety reprieve: Ag secretary pauses plan to move Codex

By Dan Flynn on October 24, 2017

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, for the moment, has backed off his controversial plan to transfer the U.S. Codex Office, which works on international food standards, from USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to a …
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Country-of-origin labeling has no place in NAFTA 2.0

By Craig Uden on August 25, 2017

In public policy, as in life, learning from past mistakes is a cardinal rule for success. That is why it was disappointing to see Thomas Gremillion from the Consumer Federation of America advocate for the…
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Americans have a right to know: Where’s the beef — from?

By Thomas Gremillion on August 15, 2017

This week marks the beginning of formal talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, an agreement President Donald Trump has called the “worst deal in history.” To make it a better deal, his…
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Ranchers look for some traction on country-of-origin labeling

By Dan Flynn on February 3, 2017

As individual actions, they might not mean much. Collectively, they say Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) is not going away anytime soon.

http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photography-cheyenne-wyoming-state-capitol-image6563112Two states known for their cowboys, Wyoming and South Dakota, have seen early introduction of…
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Dairy industry seeks Trump’s help with Canada under NAFTA

By News Desk on January 12, 2017

U.S. dairy organizations and the state departments of agriculture across the country turned to President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday to combat Canada’s existing and soon-to-be-expanded protectionist policies designed to block imports from the United States.

They…
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WTO Authorizes $1 Billion in Retaliatory Tariffs Against COOL

By Lydia Zuraw on December 8, 2015

map-North-America_406x250The World Trade Organization (WTO) has authorized Canada and Mexico to charge the U.S. $1 billion in retaliatory tariffs for country-of-origin labeling (COOL) on meat. Last spring, WTO rejected a U.S. appeal of its decision…
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