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"Mr President, I welcome the opportunity to make a brief contribution to this debate, which highlights the important role of the European Parliament in the crucial area of food safety, public health and environmental standards. It is in the interests of farmers and consumers to restore consumer confidence in food. In this very sorry saga, farmers have in many cases been the innocent victims of circumstances beyond their control.
Central to this very wide debate is the White Paper on food safety which will for the first time propose an ethical framework putting Europe and its Member States at the forefront of world food safety. It has been brought about by the clear and unequivocal concerns of 370 million consumers in the European Union on the safety of the European food chain.
Member States must conduct specific target inspection programmes in the implementation of these directives. They will be required to inform the European Commission when a serious risk of contamination is detected. The Union must also, by means of directives, establish a legal basis to harmonise the transmission of information on feed controls and food safety.
I should like to comment briefly on the directive concerning undesirable substances in products and animal nutrition. The chicken dioxin crisis highlighted the shortcomings in Community legislation and animal nutrition. It will end the possibility of authorising the use of raw materials for animal food in excess of the maximum limits laid down.
These directives are part of the most radical shake-up of the Community's food safety hygiene rules for at least 25 years. The new regulations will merge, harmonise and simplify very detailed and complex hygiene requirements which were previously scattered over numerous directives.
We have all learned our lesson from the food crisis of the 90s. I am confident that with this systematic set of uniform rules we are laying the groundwork for filling the gaps in the existing legislation and enhancing food safety throughout the food chain."@en1
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