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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the last serious and very recent case of widely-consumed counterfeited goods – a toothpaste containing antifreeze, sold on the European market and produced in China – brings back into the limelight the problem of combating ‘multinational forgery’.
It is in this large Asian country, where
slavery is permitted for workers deprived of any sort of protection, that most of the products of the counterfeiting industry are concentrated
medicines, cosmetics and food products, as well as toys and items of clothing containing carcinogenic chemical substances that are strictly prohibited in the European Union.
Unfortunately, this is a phenomenon that, while until a few years ago was restricted to high-end products (luxury lotions, perfumes, watches and bags), is now expanding to include products within the reach of an ever-growing number of users, leading to a high risk for consumer health.
Today, more than ever, it is necessary for the political and industrial West to adopt a strong position towards powerful, wealthy China. On the one hand, we need to step up coordination between the Member States in inspections of imported products and, on the other hand, we need to persuade the Chinese Government to apply wide-scale, very strict on-the-ground, checks in order to protect European industry from unfair competition resulting partly from counterfeiting and piracy."@en1
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