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food safety | SPS
Tomatoes or children?
| 19-July-2008
It is gratifying that our government will go to such lengths to stamp out a dangerous bacterium. It is less encouraging to know that the inspectors were not looking at massive labor rights violations, especially the systematic employment of young children in hazardous conditions, which have existed in the tomato industry for decades.
S. Korean activists petition UN over beef protest clampdown
| 15-July-2008
South Korean activists Monday sent a petition to the United Nations, asking the international organization to admonish their government for its hardline crackdown on street protests over US beef imports.
Mad cows, mad people
| 11-July-2008
Through the prism of beef, Koreans confront the limitations of key contemporary institutions: democracy, capitalism, and nationalism.
Threat to plans for trade pact
| 11-July-2008
Indonesia’s ban on New Zealand beef could threaten plans to sign a lucrative free-trade pact with South-east Asian nations this year, industry officials say. 
No one is sure how successful the movement will be in stopping the importation of American beef into Korea but it has certainly fractured the seemingly monolithic aura of President Lee and his neo-liberal bulldozer and will perhaps spark a new generation of class struggle in South Korea.
Hyundai workers strike over US beef
| 10-July-2008
Workers at Hyundai Motor Co. staged a partial strike Thursday over stalled annual wage negotiations with management and the resumption of US beef imports.
EE.UU. negó el ingreso de productos guatemaltecos por violaciones sanitarias
| 10-July-2008
La edición electrónica del diario local Prensa Libre señaló que la Administración de Medicinas y Alimentos de Estados Unidos (FDA, por su sigla en inglés) impidió el ingreso de los productos guatemaltecos por incumplir con las normas sanitarias contenidas en el Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) suscrito entre ese país y Centroamérica
Vaste mobilisation sud-coréenne
| 8-July-2008
Le lien entre « la crise du boeuf » et les accords de libre-échange est évident. « À travers l’un, nous luttons contre l’autre, explique-t-on. Même si c’est un lien que ne font pas tous ceux qui descendent dans la rue aujourd’hui. Notre mouvement exige la rectification des accords conclus en avril de l’an dernier. Ceux-ci concernent durablement la vie de tous les citoyens, les paysans en premier lieu. »
SKorean activists prepare ’million-strong’ US beef rallies
| 5-July-2008
South Korean activists Saturday promised to draw one million protesters nationwide in the biggest anti-US beef rallies so far
US beef recalled on E. coli concerns
| 3-July-2008
Some 240 tons of beef products from an approved US exporter to Korea suspected of being contaminated with the O-157 strain of E. coli have been recalled, the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said Wednesday.
S.Korea activists launch US beef boycott
| 3-July-2008
South Korean activists on Thursday launched a nationwide campaign to boycott US beef as President Lee Myung-Bak issued a fresh warning against violent protests.
Normas sanitarias y fitosanitarias: ¿Una estrategia para amañar el mercado de alimentos?
| 2-July-2008
En materia de sanidad animal y vegetal, tanto Estados Unidos como la Unión Europea están tratando de imponerle sus normas a los demás países a traves de los TLC.
Sécurité sanitaire : les dés sont pipés
| 2-July-2008
Sur la scène de la sécurité sanitaire, les États-Unis comme l’UE tentent de faire adopter leurs normes par les autres pays à travers les accords bilatéraux de libre-échange.
Food safety - rigging the game
| 2-July-2008
In the food safety arena, both the US and the EU are pressing their standards on other countries through bilateral free trade agreements.
More than 100 injured in SKorea beef protests
| 29-June-2008
South Korean police clashed violently with protesters opposing US beef imports in Seoul, leaving more than 100 people injured
Opposition parties launch campaigns to nullify beef announcement
| 27-June-2008
South Korea’s opposition parties declared the official announcement to resume imports of US beef null and void and launched a series of campaigns to have it withdrawn. Opposition party members have also proposed plans to hold a national referendum on the beef agreement and plan to seek other forms of legal action against it.
New protests as South Korea checks US beef for import
| 27-June-2008
Militant protesters blocked trucks from leaving warehouses for a second day on Friday as South Korea resumed quarantine checks on US beef imports, moving to bring the product to market for the first time in nine months.
’Loophole’ revealed in US ban on downer cattle
| 26-June-2008
On June 25, the Humane Society released a new investigative report showing extremely sick dairy cows being dragged and shocked in order to move them into an auction ring in the United States 
Protests erupt across South Korea with 100 arrests made, potential for clashes at cold storage warehouses increases |
L’accord entre l’Union Européenne et l’Inde menace l’accès aux traitements en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient
| 12-April-2013
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