Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-06-15-Speech-2-072"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2010-06-15"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20100615.5.2-072"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Andrés Perelló Rodríguez2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partido Socialista Obrero Español (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; EMPL (2009-07-16--2010-09-05)3 member; Delegation for relations with Iraq (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2010-11-15)3 member; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the thousand amendments from the committee that we are seeing in Parliament are the best demonstration of our goodwill. However, as well as goodwill, I think that we have to be practical when labelling food if we do not want to have the opposite effect to the one we are aiming for: in other words, confusing consumers rather than informing them. It is a case of warning, not explaining. It is a case of informing them what they can eat and in what quantities they can eat it. Is labelling on fat, sugar and transfats necessary? Indeed it is. Is labelling on things that affect cholesterol – on all substances that affect what we have mentioned: obesity and people’s health – necessary? It is. Nevertheless, including other types of information, whilst potentially very informative, could end up being confusing in the case of some foodstuffs: for example, the place of origin, or, in the case of meat, where the beast was born, where it has passed through, where it was raised and where it was slaughtered. It is up to us to be practical and to make sure that this regulation becomes one that will harmonise and inform consumers; if not, it will cause greater confusion and impose issues that, far from achieving better levels of health, will achieve greater levels of confusion. That is why I suggest that for some foodstuffs, we opt for a guideline daily amount instead of the traffic lights, because that way, it is very clear that if you eat a certain amount or twice that amount of a given product, you will get fat and, therefore, that you should only eat one of them. Some of us are suggesting a maximum daily allowance in place of other types of code so as not to confuse consumers further."@en1
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