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"The aim of this regulation is to define the rules for monitoring any ‘novel foods’ that might land on the plates of European consumers. However, the Commission’s proposal is far from satisfactory, principally in two areas.
First of all, too little is known about the effects of nanotechnologies on health and so they must be more specifically monitored before being put on to the market. This is already the case with cosmetics; it would be ludicrous if the same action were not taken for our food.
Secondly, food produced from cloned animals and their offspring, for which the Commission and the Council does not intend to establish a specific system on the pretext that there is no evidence of any risk to consumers’ health. This is quite simply unacceptable. Even if it was not a question of directly consuming cloned animals, we wish to remove these foodstuffs from the scope of the regulation and, above all, we want a public and transparent debate to take place on this issue which involves both producers and consumers.
These are ethical questions that deserve to be asked on behalf of a production and consumption model that it is our duty to preserve."@en1
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