| 来源类型 | Reports and working papers
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| Hormone-treated beef: should Britain accept it after Brexit? |
| Millstone, Erik; Lang, Tim
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| 发表日期 | 2018-09-01
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| 出版者 | Food Research Collaboration
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| 出版年 | 2018
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This Briefing explains why the use of synthetic, industrially-manufactured hormones in beef production,
and the threat of importing hormone-produced beef after Brexit, matter for UK consumers. There is robust scientific evidence showing that meat produced using one key hormone (17β-oestradiol) increases the cancer risk to consumers, while for the rest the available evidence is insufficient to show that their use is acceptably safe. The Briefing outlines the basis of the scientific and policy disputes over the use of supplementary hormones in beef cattle production. It shows that, although the USA is most associated with hormone-reared beef, other countries that want to export their beef to the UK, post Brexit, either allow hormones to be used, or are suspected of doing so. The EU has been reasonably vigilant on consumers’ behalf on this issue, and it has robust scientific grounds for its ban on their use.
The risk from beef hormones is one of many issues on which UK consumers have benefited from the EU’s measures to protect public and environmental health. Chlorine-washed chicken is another example. |
| URL | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/79321/
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| 来源智库 | Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/469110
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GB/T 7714 |
Millstone, Erik,Lang, Tim. Hormone-treated beef: should Britain accept it after Brexit?. 2018.
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