A new generation of trade policy: potential risks to diet-related health from the trans pacific partnership agreement
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A new generation of trade policy: potential risks to diet-related health from the trans pacific partnership agreement
Trade poses risks and opportunities to public health nutrition. This paper discusses the potential food-related public health risks of a radical new kind of trade agreement: the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP). Under negotiation since 2010, the TPP involves Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the USA, and Vietnam. Here, we review th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Globalization and Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1744-8603
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-9-46