Month: September 2022

NOT A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD. "The UK imports about 30% of its meat ... a large amount is from countries including Brazil, Argentina and Australia, where lower production costs make meat cheaper. In some non-EU countries, hormonal growth promoters are used in beef ... But in Europe, these promoters were banned in the 1980s over food safety concerns." http://lnkd.in/da3_GE8 View in LinkedIn

BLACK MARKET GROWTH DRUGS. "The EU’s position on hormonal growth promotes has strengthened since the 1980s, partly because of examples of illegal hormone use – particularly muscle-building beta-agonists – in some countries. Monitoring residues of growth promotors is now more stringent." Like sports medicine. http://lnkd.in/da3_GE8 View in LinkedIn

EUROPE UNEQUIVOCAL. "The ?.. SCVPH thoroughly re-evaluated the risks to human health from hormone residues in bovine meat and meat products treated with six hormones for growth promotion. In 1999 this independent scientific advisory body concluded that no acceptable daily intake (ADI) could be established for any of these hormones." http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/chemicalsafety/contaminants/hormones/index_en.htm View in LinkedIn

EUROPEAN HORMONE BAN. "For oestradiol 17ß it concluded that there is a substantial body of evidence suggesting that oestradiol 17ß has to be considered as a complete carcinogen ... and that the data available would not allow a quantitative estimate of the risk. Having examined additional scientific data the SCVPH confirmed its opinion in 2000 and 2002." http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/chemicalsafety/contaminants/hormones/index_en.htm View in LinkedIn

"THE BEEF HORMONE DISPUTE is one of the most intractable agricultural controversies since the establishment of the World Trade Organization. The European Union banned the import of meat that contained artificial beef hormones ... Canada and the United States opposed this ban, taking the EU to the WTO Dispute Settlement Body. In 1997, the WTO ruled against the EU. The EU appealed the ruling." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_hormone_controversy View in LinkedIn

BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY. "The EU often applies the precautionary principle very stringently in regards to food safety. The precautionary principle means that in a case of scientific uncertainty, the government may take appropriate measures proportionate to the potential risk ... In 1996, the EU banned imported beef from the US and continued to do so after the 2003 Mad Cow scare." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_hormone_controversy View in LinkedIn

80% OF US BEEF IS HORMONE TREATED. "In 2011, more than 34 million cattle and 850,000 calves were slaughtered to provide beef for US consumers ... 80 percent of all US feedlot cattle are injected with hormones to make them grow faster ... one government study from 2007 estimated that approximately 17 percent of all cows in the US were given the genetically engineered growth hormone rBGH to increase milk production." (2011). http://lnkd.in/dcJYWsG View in LinkedIn

US CONSUMERS UNAWARE. "One of the effects of the Beef Hormone Dispute in the US was to awaken the public's interest in the issue. This interest was not wholly unsympathetic to the EU. In 1989 ... CSPI ... pressed for an adoption of a ban within the US similar to that within the E.U." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_hormone_controversy View in LinkedIn

TIT FOR TAT. "The EU has suspended imports of beef and bovine liver from the United States, notwithstanding continuing threats by the U.S. government to impose 100 percent tariffs on more than $900 million worth of European products unless the ban is lifted." http://lnkd.in/dv-EN2y View in LinkedIn

TIT FOR TAT. "Inspectors from the EU’s Food and Veterinary Office have determined that meat imported from Canada and the United States does not satisfy the EEC’s safety standards." https://www.bc.edu/dam/files/schools/law/lawreviews/journals/bcealr/27_3/02_TXT.htm View in LinkedIn