In assuming a certain level of familiarity with wto law and the sps agreement the intended audience would appear to be international trade lawyers and practitioners or environmental lawyers with a specialist interest in sps matters although domestic regulators and policy makers responsible for devising health and environmental risk . Regulating health and environmental risks under wto law a critical analysis of the sps agreement the analysis of the international investment regime engages with the threats that contractual . The last sixty years witnessed an unprecedented expansion of international trade the system created by the general agreement on tariffs and trade and later by the world trade organization wto has proved to be an efficient tool for the elimination of trade tariff barriers this process also coincided with the increased national risk regulatory controls. The last sixty years witnessed an unprecedented expansion of international trade the system created by the general agreement on tariffs and trade and later by the world trade organization wto has proved to be an efficient tool for the elimination regulating health and environmental risks under wto law a critical analysis of the sps . A critical analysis of the sps agreement gruszczynski lukasz regulating health and environmental risks under wto law a critical analysis of the sps agreement new york oxford university press 2010 the last sixty years witnessed an unprecedented expansion of international trade