10-9 news: EU, U.S. groups react to decision to take poultry dispute to WTO
"We regret that the United States has decided to ask for a panel to be established in this case. We feel that litigation is not the most appropriate way to deal with complex issues such as this one," the European Commission said in a statement. "However, since the US has chosen this path, we will defend our food safety legislation, which does not discriminate against imported products.”
Boyden Gray, a U.S. special envoy to the EU, protested last year that the ban was not scientifically justified, Euractiv.com reports, and that some EU processors used the same process for their exports.