1.   Fears that eating mad-cow tainted beef could cause humans to contract CJD provoked a crisis in the beef industry across Europe and cattle prices plummeted.

2.   The EU has previously expressed fear that hormone-treated meat causes cancer but several internationally recognized studies show hormone-treated beef causes no negative health effects.

3.   The EU ban is based on fears that hormone-treated beef may cause cancer, but the WTO has ruled the existing ban illegal.

4.   The EU maintains hormone-treated beef causes cancer in consumers.

5.   The EU meat ban stems from fears that eating BSE-infected beef can cause am equally deadly brain ailment in humans.

6.   Undercooked beef has caused past outbreaks.