You can believe me that if there were even a whisper of a problem, someone in America would have pressed a lawsuit by now. At the very least we would have heard from one of our very strong and very vocal consumer groups. This has not happened. European scientific advisory committees and UN scientific organizations in the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization have concurred with the American scientists. Let me just put the terms of the debate in layman's terms.
Hormones occur naturally in all plants and animals, at widely varying levels.
The egg you buy in the supermarket has about as much estradiol, a naturally occurring hormone, as 6 kilograms of beef from a steer treated with the same hormone. Even among cattle, hormone levels vary widely. A bull has a higher hormone level than a steer. European beef comes predominately from bulls, American from steers. Thus, European beef may actually contain more hormones than American hormone treated beef.