food safety | SPS
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23-Aug-2018 20 minutes
Interdire les pesticides de synthèse? C’est non
Le Conseil fédéral s’est prononcé contre l’initiative «pour une Suisse libre de pesticides de synthèse». Une interdiction d’importer serait en outre en partie contraire aux accords de libre-échange conclus par la Suisse.
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6-Aug-2018 IATP
Five red flags for food, farming and fair trade under the UK’s new Brexit plan
“Brexit” presents a number of significant risks to the future of sustainable food and agriculture in both the UK and the EU.
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12-Jul-2018 Unearthed
UK-India trade review calls for flexibility on food standards and chemical rules
Confidential document details complaints over EU rules on imports such as rice and paneer ahead of prospective post-Brexit trade talks.
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6-Jun-2018 Sydney Morning Herald
Australia’s ’hormone beef’ not to Brexit Britain’s taste: report
One of Australia’s supposed key demands for a free trade deal with the UK – their agreeing to buy our hormone-treated beef – is “almost impossible” for the UK to agree to, according to a new report by an anti-Brexit think tank.
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28-May-2018 The Guardian
Chicken safety fear as chlorine washing fails bacteria tests
British microbiologists find that American technique at heart of Brexit trade row does not kill listeria and salmonella
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24-Apr-2018 Farmers Weekly
Scots call for halt to EU’s Mercosur trade talks
Scottish farm leaders have urged the European Commission to postpone its “reckless” trade negotiations with the Mercosur block of South American countries because of fears over the damage it could inflict on the beef sector.
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18-Apr-2018 Alternatives Economiques
Pourra-t-on encore interdire le glyphosate avec le Ceta ?
Il est au moins un domaine dans lequel un partenariat renforcé entre la France et le Canada apparaît dangereux : les normes sanitaires.
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12-Apr-2018 The Guardian
Costly medicines and pus in milk: a Brexit trade deal that’ll make you sick
The US trade barriers list shows that Liam Fox could let more than just chlorinated chicken into the UK. The public deserve to know the details
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3-Apr-2018 Iowa Farmer Today
Progress made on biotech during seventh NAFTA round
Negotiators closed the chapter on good regulatory practices, the sixth chapter to be completed. They have also finished on the sanitary-phytosanitary measures chapter. All three countries also agreed to establish a formal energy chapter.
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29-Mar-2018 CNCD 11.11.11
Leak : réunion d’un comité opaque du CETA sur les pesticides
Un document interne révèle le programme du comité portant sur les réglementations sanitaires et phytosanitaires, considérées par les firmes de l’agrobusiness comme des obstacles au commerce.
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29-Mar-2018 Medium
CETA: Secret committee on pesticides meets in Ottawa on March 26–27
Leaked EU documents reveal a secret committee will begin discussions on how to weaken norms on pesticides and food quality standards.
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1-Mar-2018 Focus Taiwan
US concerned over Taiwan’s meat import ban, wants its removal
This refers to Taiwan’s "zero tolerance" policy on US pork imports that contain a leanness-enhancing drug known as ractopamine
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23-Feb-2018 The Guardian
Red tape in the meat industry? It’s the difference between life and death
Without regulations that scrutinise food standards and trade deals, we cannot trust the safety of the food on our plates.
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22-Feb-2018 The Guardian
’Dirty meat’: Shocking hygiene failings discovered in US pig and chicken plants
Previously unseen government records detail ‘deeply worrying’ incidents in pork and poultry plants, raising fears of ‘dirty meat’ entering the UK under a post-Brexit trade deal.
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15-Feb-2018 The Guardian
Resist a US trade deal. Your life may depend on it
We cannot trust our government to fight America’s disgusting farming practices. Unless we mobilise, US livestock pumped full of antibiotics will harm us all.
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31-Jan-2018 Greenpeace
CETA, regulatory cooperation and food safety
Agricultural and food standards are among those targeted by CETA’s focus on eliminating so-called ‘non-tariff barriers’.
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30-Jan-2018
EU-Mercosur association agreement: The SPS and sustainability chapters in the Uruguay leaks
Similar to the July 2017 draft of the Mercosur agreement, the November 2017 version only contains one single reference to the precautionary principle
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19-Jan-2018
EU-MERCOSUR FTA: Sanitary & phytosanitary draft chapter (Nov 2017)
EU-MERCOSUR FTA draft sanitary and phytosanitary chapter text from November 2017
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17-Jan-2018 The Guardian
Bacon with banned additive among risks of US-UK trade deal
Soil Association issues top 10 food safety concerns posed by a transatlantic free-trade deal.
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5-Jan-2018 Bloomberg
US urges UK to cut EU rules after Brexit to boost trade
US trade official says it is ‘difficult’ to do business with EU and Brexit offers chance to press the ‘reset button’.
