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Tomorrow’s food crises will need new solutions
The key is to put safety, sustainability and accountability at the centre of the conversation, says ALAN SIMPSON

LEAKED papers from the EU-Latin America (Mercosur) trade negotiations have set alarm bells ringing. 

The EU offer to allow an extra 70,000 tons of beef imports a year is worrying because of the absence of any environmental standards or (enforceable) “precautionary principles” (about food safety) attached to it. We’ve been here before.

Earlier this year the scandal about Brazilian “rotten food” triggered an international ban on their beef and chicken exports. China, Japan and Hong Kong led the way, with the EU being not far behind.

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