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consumers. What is important to consumers? Healthy and safe food. Banking and insurance services that protect their financial well-being. Affordable medicines and health care. Access to an open
Internet and privacy protections. A clean environment. From what we know about the TPP text, it would undermine these critical consumer priorities, not promote them.
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CUJ has campaigned against gene-edited foods being released without mandatory risk assessment or labeling, arguing that they are also GMO foods. In what may have been the world’s first protest against a genome edited GMO food product, the GABA tomato, activists from
Consumers Union of Japan and the
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As consumer movement leaders in the U.S. and Japan, we agree that it is crucial that both countries prioritize consumer interests. However, we strongly disagree with the editorial’s unsupported assumption that the Trans-Pacific
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December 2003. In December 2005, Japan once again allowed imports of U.S. beef, but reinstated the ban in January 2006 after a technical violation of the U.S.-Japan beef import agreement.
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