Press Release: Commissioner David Byrne welcomes Council support for legislation banning hormones as growth promoters

David Byrne, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection welcomed the Council's political agreement reached on 16 December 2002 on the Commission proposal of May 2000 to amend current legislation prohibiting the use of all hormones as growth promoters. Scientific opinion has repeatedly confirmed that such use of hormones in cattle poses a health risk to consumers.

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