date:Jun 28, 2012
Speaking at the IFAH-Europe conference in Brussels last week, Hans Joostens, policy officer at the European Commission DG Trade, said that the use of food safety and animal health as a trade barrier was increasing, with countries blocking imports due tounreasonable sanitary and phytosanitary restrictions.
The reasons for this lie in protectionist measures... Developing countries have not yet built up standards of safety that match Europe,he explained.
The EU is the largest exporter of agri-f