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We must not imagine that the creation of a European Food Authority will provide a panacea for all the problems of food safety. What is needed is a change in the EU’s current policies affecting the safety of food, namely, the common agricultural policy and the common fisheries policy. Highly intensive production and the quest for greater profits have had damaging consequences on the overall safety of food, with high costs for both human and animal health, as we have seen in the cases of BSE, dioxins and, more recently, with foot-and-mouth disease. The European Food Safety Authority must not be a smokescreen for public opinion.
Furthermore, an authority that guarantees risk assessment for food safety, underpinned by solid scientific opinion, must not take responsibility from or replace the Commission or the competent authorities in each Member State in managing the risks of Community food policy.
The whole food chain must be involved, with the spotlight on the role of the agri-foodstuff industry in food safety. We agreed that the underlying principle of any legislation on food is to protect human health and it is this very reason that makes it crucial to apply the precautionary principle to risk management, when scientific data are insufficient or inconclusive. Food traceability, with an integrated ‘from farm to fork’ approach is the right principle, although questions have rightly been raised about its immediate implementation in Portugal with no transitional period, which would enable account to be taken of the specific characteristics of our agricultural production and of the sectors involved.
The question must nevertheless be asked whether a structure that is so cumbersome from the administrative and budgetary point of view is really necessary and this also applies to appointing the members of the management board, in which the authorities of each Member State should have a greater role.
Despite all of this, we consider the amendments tabled by Parliament on the need for imported produce to respect Community legislation to be crucial, as is extending the legislation’s coverage to encompass animal feedingstuffs too."@en1
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