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Europe, September, 1999 by Barber, Lionel
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Consumers' food safety concerns threaten to snarl transatlantic relations
Europe is in a funk about food safety. Beef hormones, Coca-Cola, eggs, genetically modified foods, or mad cow disease - in each of these cases public confidence plummeted this summer.
The immediate cause is a succession of food safety scares that have wrong-footed governments and forced traditionally powerful food producers in Europe and the US onto the defensive.
In Belgium, worries about cancer-causing dioxin obliged the government to recall millions of eggs and hundreds of thousands of pounds of ...
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