Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-05-15-Speech-1-106"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-05-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Nutrition and health claims made on foods Addition of vitamins and minerals and of certain other substances to foods (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060515.16.1-106"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-05-15-Speech-1-1072
lpv:speaker	lp:Åsa Westlund2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CULT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Arbetarepartiet- Socialdemokraterna (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"I wish to join in thanking the rapporteurs, Mrs Scheele and Mrs Poli Bortone, the shadow rapporteurs, the Commission and the Council for the work they have done on ensuring that, tomorrow, we have an agreement on which to adopt a position and that will make it much simpler for consumers to make healthier choices, because they have access to more accurate and more comprehensive information. Many of us have undoubtedly bought breakfast cereal, bread or yoghurt that, when we were in the shop, we understood to be extremely healthy. When we have come home, we have discovered that the yoghurt may not have contained any fat but, instead, contained a large quantity of sugar. It is not by chance that many of us have been placed in this position. Companies know that we wish to make healthy choices and therefore do everything to make food appear beneficial, even if it is sometimes the very opposite of that. A familiar device is for the manufacturer to select an individual ingredient perceived by consumers to be beneficial and then to emphasise this using large thick letters, at the same time as using microscopic lettering to state, for example, the sugar and fat content. The agreement on which we shall vote tomorrow may put an end to these and many other types of misleading advertisement. Statements about health benefits need to be substantiated scientifically and not be made about products that, considered as a whole, are not good for people’s health. If, in future, companies wish to highlight the presence in an item of food of a particular ingredient that people perceive as beneficial, then that item of food should not, in principle, have an unduly high sugar, fat, salt or alcohol content. Obviously, there is still a lot of work to be done on this regulation, and we shall monitor future work carefully and, in particular, the preparation of nutrient profiles. I and many others in my group are extremely proud of this agreement, but we are also prepared, if need be, to come back with further requirements designed to make it more stringent."@en1

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