EU and US mega deal sparks inflated emotions (2)
![Daniel Rosario, European Commission's spokesperson for Agriculture and Rural Development, Ignacio Garcia Bercero, European Union chief negociator for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and Dan Mullaney, US TTIP chief negociator, deliver a press conference at the end of the 10th round of the TTIP negociations at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. The European Commission emphasised numerous times in all kinds of forums that the lowering of food safety standards is definitely not on the table. [Photo: ANP]](https://live.poultryworld.net/app/uploads/2021/04/001_420_rb-image-2688759-848x565.jpeg)
The EU and the US are negotiating a free trade and investment agreement. Negotiations are also about import tariffs but mainly about sanitary and phytosanitary standards. In the second part of this two-part series, World Poultry examines this deal which can have far-reaching consequences for agriculture.
The negotiating teams of the EU and the US deny that TTIP will go into specific files, but that does not take away the fear. “The Americans don’t just want to bring their GM crops, chlorine
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