The following is excerpted from a 19 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.
WTO members meeting as the committee dealing with food safety and animal and plant health agreed on 18–19 October 2012 to accelerate work on how to defuse disputes with the help of its chairperson.
They aim to try to complete this when they meet next in March 2013.
This item is available in its entirety at:
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news12_e/sps_18oct12_e.htm