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"Mr President, Commissioner, since the coming into force of the novel food directive, the European Commission too has made a bit of a hash of things, to put it mildly. This is how we would put it informally. The European food industry is partly to blame for this because they were not prepared to make any concessions in the past.
Mr President, the argument which has led the Commission today to include the 1% level here in this implementation was the fact that that which was held impossible in the past, namely identification and detection under the one percent threshold as well, is now possible. Mr President, because measuring methods are available. This means that in fact, anything can be detected at present.
However, the regulation which is now in place means that we will soon have four types of food. Firstly, GMO-labelled food; secondly, food which is not supposed to contain any GMOs; thirdly, the category with the maximum 1% tolerance level and fourthly, all the supermarket chains which say that they can guarantee 0.1% although with the best will in the world they could not even guarantee this 0.1% because even in the identity preserved-chain foods will always contain more than 0.1% of GMOs.
Mr President, this legislation shows up two deficiencies. Firstly, regulations are not just in place for maize and soya. I wonder when the rest will surface. Secondly, as Mr Sterckx has already mentioned, the term ‘contamination’ will need to be replaced by ‘presence’.
Mr President, I would also like to mention another issue. Whatever will we be faced with next? At present, we are only dealing with food available to the consumer. But if, for example, I consider the foodstuffs or the food for our livestock, then we would need to refer to this novel feed
directive and I would also mention the comments made by Mrs Breyer. Mr President, it would thus mean that if you know that all the proteins originate from abroad, say from South America, that you will soon also need to label absolutely everything with GMO identification within the framework of this novel food directive.
Mr President, I wonder if we have to put up with this Dancing Procession of Echternach for much longer?"@en1
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