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"Food products obtained by using nanotechnology must certainly be submitted to specific risk assessments before being approved, labelled and placed on the European market, as is true for food derived from cloned animals and their offspring. The precise purpose of these regulations is to safeguard food safety and human health.
I agree that the name ‘novel foods’, although uninspired, is interesting enough to make you long for every kind of beautifully coloured, juicy fruit, offering an extraordinary taste, never having been seen before. Unfortunately, however, the reality is much duller. We are justified in not wanting food products obtained by using nanotechnology to be approved until after nanospecific tests have been carried out.
Just because, in recent years, scientific discoveries are being made in this field at an ever-faster rate and their practical applications may provide real, life-saving solutions for eradicating hunger or tackling the effects of the economic crisis in the future, this does not give us the right to discard any concern for our safety and health and for those of future generations.
It is amazing how casually we often talk about food derived from cloned animals, as if it has been around for hundreds of years and we could not imagine our everyday lives without it. Need I remind you that the technology being used to obtain such food is still experimental in many respects.
I would just like to end by asking you a question: are you willing to put this food on the table for your children to eat?"@en1
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