Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-12-10-Speech-1-071"
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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, as a rule our food is already safe. Nevertheless, 2 000 people worldwide die every year of salmonella poisoning. In the United States alone, 9 000 people die each year of microbe-related food poisoning. These are worrying statistics, and we are not even talking about other food-related illnesses. With the general principles of food law, we are laying new foundations for safe food and we will be building on those in the next few months and years. We must work on a system which fills consumers with confidence.
Emotions sometimes run high where food is concerned, beef being a recent European example of this. Politicians cannot and must not ignore these emotions, but we must consider the facts. That is where the European Food Authority comes into its own: it must be a beacon of objectivity. The European Food Authority must join forces with national authorities, but we must ensure that it is not rendered powerless from the word go and that it is headed by an approachable front man who does not need to fight to impose his authority but who embodies quality and authority. I would like to finish off with a word of thanks to the rapporteur who has proved to personify the self-same quality and authority."@en1
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