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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Fukushima accident continues to produce very serious consequences, with radioactive water leaking into the sea at levels 6 500 times above legal limits. The risk of contaminated food products is high. Europe has established very strict controls but this applies only to fresh products. No rule has been issued to safeguard processed products, in particular tinned fish. We import 370 000 tonnes of tinned tuna. The principal suppliers are the countries of South-East Asia, which import fish from Japan. This means that tinned fish imported into Europe may contain Japanese fish. The provision of precise information about place of origin is crucial and urgent. Today consumers know where the tin was produced but not the place where the fish was caught. The Commission has recently acknowledged this and plans to close this gap with the reform of the common fisheries policy, but that will not enter into force until two years from now, just as the Sommer report, which is being debated in this plenary session, will not take effect until three years from now. We should not indulge in scaremongering but consumers have the right to urgent and clear information. The Commission should intervene as soon as possible."@en1
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