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"I reject the regulation on nutritional and health information in the version adopted by the Member States.
The regulation provides that, in future, nutrient profiles must be compiled for all foodstuffs. Food must then be advertised with claims relating to health and nutritional value only if those claims have previously been verified in a procedure standardised across Europe.
It has to be said, though, that the rules that are intended to combat wrong dietary habits represent a major technical and bureaucratic imposition for the food manufacturers, without going to the roots of the problem. Obesity cannot be combated effectively by means of regulatory intervention, but only by changes in eating habits and lifestyle; what is called for is less time spent in front of the television or the computer, and more movement.
Taken as a whole, the regulation also treats consumers as if they were helpless and concedes them no capacity to take decisions for themselves.
The European Food Authority’s standardised procedure for approving health-related claims is objectionable, being a superfluous bureaucratic monster and, above all, a burden on our small and medium-sized businesses. Large companies find it much easier to cope with the extra outlay involved in applying for approval, but the additional costs jeopardise small and medium-sized businesses’ very existence.
This law frustrates all efforts at reducing bureaucracy and the proposals for ‘better lawmaking’."@en1
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