GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization's top court largely backed the United States and Canada on Thursday in a mixed ruling in an appeal over the European Union's long-standing ban on beef treated with growth hormones.

The dispute, dating from the 1980s, has led to U.S. and Canadian sanctions of $125 million a year on European products from Roquefort cheese to mustard, and highlighted the power of concerns about food safety to disrupt trade.

The appeal was over a challenge by Brussels to the right of the United States and Canada to continue applying sanctions against the EU that had been previously authorized by the WTO because of Brussels' ban.

(Reporting by Jonathan Lynn; Editing by Andrew Dobbie)

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