Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-02-10-Speech-2-015"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-02-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Asian bird flu2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040210.1.2-015"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-02-10-Speech-2-0162
lpv:speaker	lp:Neil Parish2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, Commissioner Byrne, I welcome your statement here this morning, but I understand that you went to Thailand and were told that it was not avian flu but chicken cholera. It was only when you returned that you later found that it was actually avian flu. I welcome the ban you have imposed on Thai chicken meat but you have not banned cooked meat or canned meat, and this accounts for about 75% of our imports from Thailand. The Thai authorities have been found wanting in international compliance. They have hidden the Thai flu for maybe two months. If they protect their market from a deadly disease, surely they will protect it against minor infringements of EU standards. Will they run the same risk with cooked meats? Will we see nitrofuran residues and hormones entering the EU in this cooked meat? Is the public health of the EU overridden by the trade interests of EU exporters? I believe Thailand should be completely delisted from all poultry meat exports until that country can prove it has the infrastructure and the integrity to apply EU standards all the time. Can we also have a labelling of country of origin for principal ingredients in processed food, because this is where most of this Thai cooked meat comes in? How can we be sure that meat cooked in Thailand has reached the correct temperature? There is perhaps a slight risk – how do we know? Cooked chicken may come into the UK frozen, then thaw and be eaten with no further treatment from the time the Thais cooked it. Is this a risk to our consumers? The tariff for Thai cooked chicken meat is one seventh of that on frozen fresh chicken. Why is this so, Commissioner? This seems to be a loophole. Finally, has the disease moved to the United States of America?"@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; PECH (2002-05-16--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Parish (PPE-DE )."1

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