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Threatens Shift Toward Sustainable Food System     In Promises
and Perils of the TTIP: Negotiating a Transatlantic Agricultural
Market, (which we are co-publishing with the Heinrich Boell
Foundation) we outline some of the key differences between rules
in the U.S. and EU that will likely be on the negotiating table
during the trade talks:    • Food safety: Differing food safety
standards, especially around GMOs and controversial growth
hormones have been the subject of trade disputes between the
U.S. and EU for years, at the WTO and in standards setting
bodies. TTIP proposals seek to go beyond WTO commitments, and
allow food safety standards to be challenged directly by
corporations. There is also pressure to lower EU standards on
meats and poultry, including controversial growth promotion
hormones, such as ractopamine, and chlorinated rinses of
poultry. The EU, for its part, is seeking to overturn limits on
its exports of beef despite concerns over