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Article: Dueling risk assessments: why the WTO and Codex threaten U.S. food standards.(World Trade Organization; Codex Alimentarius Commission)
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- Environmental Law
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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I. INTRODUCTION
The onset of increased international trade during the 1980s and 1990s has resulted in numerous challenges to United States laws and regulations.(1) The next likely U.S. target of the international trade juggernaut could be the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA).(2) The Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) Decision,(3) a recent decision by the World Trade Organization (WTO)(4) concerning the Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement),(5) threatens to trump U.S. food standards. This threat arises because the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the agency responsible for upholding the FQPA, makes risk assessment decisions that differ ...
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