1. Director for Latin America Trade to the EU O'CONNOR AND COMPANY Rue de Spa, 30 B-1000 Brussels BELGIUM
   

• Customs Rules
  
• Food imports
  
• Imports of animal products
  
• Imports of non animal foodstuffs
  

The European Union has significantly changed its approach to food safety since the turn of this new century. The changes were due to a number of significant food health scares in the 1990s including BSE in cattle, antibiotics in chicken feed, dioxin in animal feeds and a series of cases of contamination of drinks (Coka Cola), of cooking oil, and outbreaks of salmonella. As a result of these problems, consumers and the general public lost confidence in the capacity of the Regulator to ensure safe and healthy foods. The solution was a complete overhaul of the rules and the enforcement of those rules.

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