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"en.20100616.24.3-308"2
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"I voted in favour of the report on the provision of food information to consumers.
I am satisfied with this vote, which will allow consumers to have access in future to clear, legible and reliable labelling on certain food products. The idea of a colour code on packaging indicating whether the quantity of essential nutrients is high (green), medium (yellow) or low (red) – as sought by the socialists and the Greens – has been rejected thanks to the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), and I am pleased about that. The basis of a balanced diet is variety. This colour code would have resulted in the stigmatisation of certain foods, and I do not see how this would help our fellow citizens to have a more balanced diet.
We succeeded in avoiding a regulation which is too heavy, which would harm consumers as well as our SMEs. I am also happy that viticulture, the luxury sector
benefits from an exemption from nutritional labelling. We must not endanger our wine sector, which is already subject to a detailed regulatory system."@en1
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