The US is reported to have urged Japan not to implement food safety measures in a way that restricts trade.
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The Associated Press reports that a senior working-level meeting held last Friday was used to ask Japanese food safety authorities to make sure current and future safety measures do not distort trade. The move was likely triggered by Japan’s response to cases of BSE.
The meeting was held under the auspices of the Trade Forum, set up last year under the US-Japan Partnership for Growth framework for economic dialogue.
Japan is reported to have promised to speed up efforts to accept additives that are internationally approved, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official is cited as saying.
“Paramount among the U.S. government’s concerns was the increasing number of
trade problems in the agricultural sector,” the US Embassy in Tokyo said in a press release.
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