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Bush steps up fight against European safety testing
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor

21 September 2003

President George Bush is mounting an intensive campaign to force European countries to drop safety tests expected to save thousands of lives each year, internal US government documents seen by The Independent on Sunday reveal. Britain, which has been generally supportive, last week denounced the measures as "disastrously wrong".


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