In order to ensure that technical regulations and product standards which vary from country to country do not create unnecessary obstacles to trade the Agreement ofn Technical Barriers to Trade was adopted. It is paralleled by the Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures which sets out the basic rules on how governments can apply food safety as well as animal and plant health measures without, however, using them as an excuse for protecting domestic producers. Prominent decisions under the WTO Dispute Settlement, as for example int he Beef Hormones Case, have interpreted those...