List of tables and figure -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: the intersection of risk and trade -- Science in the regulation of risk : a transatlantic divide? -- Informal trade conflict -- Mad cows and transatlantic trade conflict -- Resolving differences over stinky cheese and bothersome beetles -- Formal trade conflict -- The dispute over hormonal cattle : the lead up to EC-hormones -- Fearing "frankenfoods" : emergence of EC-biotech -- Disputing chlorinated chickens : the politics underpinning ec-poultry -- Science and the politics of transatlantic trade conflict -- Conclusions: lessons for trade conflict -- Moving forward -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography.