Advocacy group warns that impending TPP agreement will exacerbate current weaknesses with food imports.
Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)–January 28, 2016. As officials prepare to sign the Transpacific Trade Partnership (TPP) next month, the national advocacy organization Food & Water Watch today warned that the controversial trade deal will exacerbate already flawed food safety import systems. In a letterto Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Wenonah Hauter, the group’s executive director, outlined existing problems with USDA’s Food Safety Inspection…
