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Consumer protection depends on clear and precise information in terms of traceability and product labelling.
Assuming that consumers must be able to choose a GM-free diet, we are opposed to the setting of a limit for the adventitious presence of unauthorised GMOs. The threshold of 1% supported by the European People’s Party and the 0.5% limit proposed by the Party of European Socialists are unacceptable. Zero tolerance must be applied to unauthorised GMOs in the Union. Consumers would find it incomprehensible that even an infinitesimal quantity of prohibited GMOs could be tolerated.
The principle of strict traceability must apply equally to products from non-EU countries. The importation of products must not result in the insidious introduction into Member States of foods made from transgenic crops that we do not allow our own farmers to grow.
We support the amendments that are designed to establish close involvement of the Member States’ food safety authorities, as well as of local and regional food and health departments, in the formulation of the opinions delivered by the European Food Safety Authority.
In this minefield of GM regulation, as elsewhere, let us not create the sort of excessive centralisation that distances people from decisions affecting their everyday lives."@en1
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