Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-13-Speech-2-284"
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"Mr President, I very much welcome the guiding principles of this directive, namely the safety of the consumer and the single market. The basic underlying food-safety legislation is that safety should be established on the basis of scientific risk assessment and that consumers should be able to purchase products of their choice provided that they are safe. It is important that safety criteria form the basis of the directive, rather than arbitrary recommended daily allowances which would be unnecessarily restrictive and not related to safety.
In the UK and Ireland we indeed have a liberal regime and consumers there do not want their rights restricted. Most vitamins and minerals have a clear nutritional function; other ingredients commonly included in supplements are not nutrients and do not therefore have a nutritional function but do have physiological function. The definition of a food supplement in the directive should reflect all supplements.
If products are now excluded from the general definition, there is a danger that such products will in the future fall outside the scope of the legislation and remain unregulated. I very much recommend that you take on board the physiological function which unfortunately the rapporteur – and I do not agree with her – asked to be excluded from the report."@en1
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