Current Issues
BSE Information:
information about the disease and prevention
(http://www.aphis.usda.gov/oa/bse/)
EU Enlargement and other issues:
Enlargement (NEW)
(http://www.useu.be/)
EU Legislation (link to information on Community Law & Procedures)
(http://www.useu.be/)
EU Measures notified to the WTO
(update) (http://www.useu.be/)
Food Safety:
Protecting the Food Supply: FDA Actions on New Bioterrorism Legislation, February 2003
(German translation)
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
(http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html)
Centers for Disease Control
(http://www.cdc.gov:80/)
Regulating Plant Agricultural Biotechnology in the United States
(http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/biotech/) German version (pdf File)
U.S. Government Food Safety Links
(http://www.epa.gov/opppsps1/fqpa/index.html#sources) lots of links to other sites
Food Safety
(update on the European Food Safety Authority - EFSA)(http://www.useu.be/agri/foodsafe.html)
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopaties (TSE Regulations)
(http://www.useu.be/agri/srm.html)
Animal by-products
(update)(http://www.useu.be/agri/by-products.html)
U.S.-EU hormone dispute can be found via these links:
A Primer on Beef Hormones
(http://www.fas.usda.gov/itp/policy/hormone2.html)
Chronology of the Beef Hormone Issue
(http://www.fas.usda.gov/itp/policy/chronology.html)
General Background Information on the Beef Hormone Issue (including
USDA press releases)
(http://www.fas.usda.gov/itp/policy/hormone.html)
European Union Commission, DG-24, Opinion of the Scientific Committee on
Veterinary Measures Relating to Public Health:
Assessment of potential risks to human health from hormone residues in bovine meat and meat products (30 April 1999)
(http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg24/health/sc/scv/out21_en.html)
WTO Sanitary/Phytosanitary Agreement
(http://www.fas.usda.gov/itp/policy/gatt/sps_txt.html)
WTO Panel Report on the Hormone Dispute
(http://www.wto.org/)
WTO Appelate Body Report on the Hormone Dispute
(http://www.wto.org/wto/dispute/hormab.pdf)
(Adobe Acrobat PDF format)
WTO Arbitrator's Report on the Hormone Dispute
(http://www.wto.org/wto/dispute/26-15e.pdf) (Adobe Acrobat PDF format)
U.S. Trade Representative Fact Sheet
(http://www.ustr.gov/releases/1999/07/fact.pdf) (Adobe Acrobat PDF format)
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