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Focus on: TTIP, food & farming

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Free trade agreement with the US threatening fruit and vegetable diversity
13-May-2014 DWN
The seed industry is planning to take advantage of the free trade agreement between the US and the EU (TTIP) to implement its patents in the European market.
Vilsack says sanitary issues delaying TTIP
30-Apr-2014 Agri-Pulse
Disagreements over sanitary and phytosanitary standards (SPS) are delaying US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations, according to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
EFSA says use of peroxyacetic acid would not cause toxicity concerns
28-Apr-2014 Global Meat News
In response to a US request, the European Food Safety Authority has given a thumbs up to peracetic acid washes for chicken carcasses, an area of concern for consumers in the TTIP talks.
The secret deal that threatens the food on your plate
28-Mar-2014 FOEE
Untangling the EU-US trade talks : What are the big concerns for food & farming? What might be the consequences for our food and farming? Friends of the Earth Europe and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy hosted a discussion in Brussels on 13 March 2014.
Grains Council pushing TTIP negotiators on EU biotech barriers
18-Mar-2014 WNAX
US Grains Council leaders are pushing Trans Atlantic free trade negotiators to keep the European Union from slowing biotechnology approval
US Senators shocked by EU’s cheese-name claims
13-Mar-2014 EurActiv
In a rare act of bipartisan unity, dozens of US senators have wheeled into action against what they call an "absurd" European initiative that would force name changes to common cheese varieties produced in the United States.
Give and take in the EU-US trade deal? Sure. We give, the corporations take
10-Mar-2014 The Guardian
George Monbiot asks why businesses have got more access to the negociations than citizens and their representative organisations have and sets down some challenges to the architects of TTIP.
EU ready to lift duties on most US goods for trade pact
10-Feb-2014 Reuters
EU shows it’s keenness for TTIP by offering to lift nearly all tariffs on goods imported from the US.
European Commission announces composition of TTIP expert group
1-Feb-2014 http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-79_en.htm
Last Monday the Commission launched a special Advisory Group of experts representing a broad range of interests, from environmental, health, consumer and workers’ interests to different business sectors to provide EU trade negotiators with high quality advice in the areas being negotiated in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks.
The TTIP: How a new secret ’trade’ treaty could put the world’s biggest firms beyond government control
21-Jan-2014 International Business Times
The US/EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is intended to set global trade rules, bypassing the World Trade Organisation which has up to now allowed developing countries to resist such an agreement.