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"Mr President, I would like to thank Mrs Keppelhoff-Wiechert for her very practical report. We need to be sure of how we are going to deal with these additives, especially in poultry. You do not find out that a chicken contains coccidiostats until it is dead and by then it is too late. The welfare problems of actually handling chicken also have to be considered. We need to be able to sort out this problem and look at it very practically.
We are very concerned in Europe that consumers should be protected, and rightly so, but what is the Commission going to do to protect European consumers from imports of poultry that have probably been fed growth promoters? Millions of chickens are imported from China and Thailand. The problem is that the poultry meat cannot be tested for growth promoters or, if it is, some time may have elapsed and the meat can no longer be tested for it. It will be impossible to determine whether growth promoters have been fed to the chickens, and so chicken producers in Europe will be at a complete economic disadvantage.
This will not protect consumers in Europe, because the meat will still be imported. We will find that European consumers are consuming meat from poultry produced in China and Thailand containing substances banned in Europe. I would like to ask Commissioner Byrne how he is going to stop this problem arising."@en1
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