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"Madam President, I welcome much of what the Commissioner has said this morning. In particular, Commissioner, what you have said about accelerating the study on the labelling of meat in processed food. Now, you have said that this was not the cause of the crisis; of course it was not, but when Parliament voted for this two years ago we did so because we wanted companies to take responsibility for their own supply chains, to understand their supply chains. By labelling they would not be able to pass the buck as they are at the moment.
I think consumers have been genuinely shocked at the nature of the current supply chain: abattoir in one country, meat-cutting somewhere else, sent across Europe, back again. It seems that there are too many middlemen, too many people in the middle, and we have lost the ‘farm to fork’ controls we thought we had after the BSE crisis. So I hope that you will look very seriously at this. When we asked for this before, the Commission and the Council said it would be too costly: but how much have governments now spent and companies now spent since the horsemeat scandal erupted?
Commissioner, you have also told us that the current system is fundamentally sound, yet many people are saying to me that the changes made in 2006 by the meat hygiene laws actually reduce the number of inspections, particularly in meat-cutting plants, and that since 2006 we no longer have everyday inspections by meat inspectors. Instead, we only have announced inspections and only three-monthly or six-monthly inspections of meat-cutting plants. It is in meat-cutting plants where it seems this scandal erupted.
Now, you are supposed to be bringing out a new food-hygiene revision this year, Commissioner, and I want to know from you what is going to be in that revision, because in the newspapers in Britain they are saying that you are going to propose further self-regulation by the food industry, that you are going to give them even more responsibility. Can consumers have confidence? This is a crisis of consumer confidence, Commissioner, and we look to you to make sure that we do not repeat the mistakes of the past."@en1
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