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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-12-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Foods and food ingredients treated with ionising radiation2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021216.8.1-096"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-12-16-Speech-1-0972
lpv:speaker	lp:Jonas Sjöstedt2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Vänsterpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; CONT (2002-03-21--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, just like the previous speaker, I believe there are no sustainable arguments for permitting the irradiation of food other than spices. Instead, quite a few Member States should be exercising tighter control over the irradiation of food that ought not to be irradiated. We wish to tighten up the report by adopting Amendments Nos 2 and 3 and so making these constitute Parliament’s position. There is an obvious risk of irradiation’s being used to conceal poor hygiene or the fact that food is too old really to be put on the market. We have no reason to permit methods that make this possible. It is also a fact that, if it is irradiated so that it will keep longer, food is in danger of losing some of its nutritional value and so becoming less good for consumers. I believe that consumers are thereby in a way being tricked into buying things that are not of the same quality. It is also partly a question of what kind of agricultural and food policy we are to have. Are we to have extremely large-scale production of goods transported over very long distances and with long shelf-lives, or are we to develop an agricultural and food policy based upon most food’s being produced locally and delivered and consumed within reasonable periods? We recommend the latter alternative."@en1

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