article_snippet: The EU is feared helps cause superbugs .
article_snippet: Just last week, the chef and food campaigner, Jamie Oliver, warned that Britain and Europe risk importing inferior food from the USA under a new free trade deal called TTIP.
article_snippet: Mute Schimpf, food campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe, said: ‘The The EU’s approach to food safety is under attack, even before any trade deal with the US is agreed.
article_snippet: Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has warned lowering standards risks allowing poor-quality US food into the British market .
article_snippet: The European consumer organisation BEUC insists that health and safety should be put ahead of a desire to improve trade relations with the US.
article_snippet: The European consumer organisation BEUC said: ‘As the EU and the US are engaged into talks for a free trade agreement, we look to EU authorities not to let EU authorities decision driven solely by trade considerations but to put food safety and consumer protection first.
highlights_snippet: Others say trade links with the USA are being put ahead of safety .
  