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"Mr President, an Italian colleague mentioned the extent of food waste in Italy as being a big problem, and certainly the issue of food waste and surplus food going back into the food chain is a problem which hit Ireland in the last seven days. It showed that if we do not have proper controls over every aspect of the food chain, not just from farm to fork but from fork back to farm, we can have huge problems.
The cost to the Irish state is EUR 180 million, and we are grateful for EU solidarity in relation to the availability of a private storage aid scheme, but we need to know what exactly went wrong in the food chain in Ireland which allowed an ingredient with dioxins in it to be fed to animals.
We are grateful that the problem has been resolved, but we need to know how it happened so that we can prevent it from happening in future. If we cannot control what is going into the animal feed chain in terms of food or surplus waste, then we will have to stop it. We need to control home mixing and we need country of origin labelling to guarantee to our consumers the meats they are eating."@en1
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