Seeking to step up pressure on the U.S. to end illegal tax breaks for its companies operating abroad, the European Union's head office fine-tuned a list of U.S. imports that could be hit with $4 billion in trade sanctions. The EU has held off on actually seeking the sanctions after winning its case at the World Trade Organization last August, but officials said they prepared the new draft to keep their options open in case the U.S. legislative process stalls, reported The Sacramento Bee.
The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 (the Bioterrorism Act or the Act) requires domestic and foreign facilities that manufacture, process, pack, or hold food for human or animal consumption in the United States to register with the FDA by December 12, 2003 . The first in a series of rules required by the Bioterrorism Act to permit FDA to respond quickly to a threatened or actual terrorist attack on the U.S. food supply, registration will assist FDA to determine the location and cause of a potential threat and permit the agency to quickly notify facilities that might be affected.
The Act has four provisions:
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