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". Mr President, firstly, I would like to thank my fellow Member, Mrs Liotard, for her sterling work. Personally, I am always in favour of putting consumers’ safety and right to information first, and that applies to all foods. The report that we are discussing here deals, among other things, with the issues of new food additives, enzymes, flavourings and ingredients with flavouring properties, as well as the issue of food containing nanomaterials. Can these things affect our health? If so, should they therefore be included in a regulation on medicinal products? It makes sense to have EU legislation in this area, but there are many different interests involved. Nanomaterials, cloned animals and esoteric products are already consumed to a large extent in other parts of the world. Who actually wants these new initiatives? Is it the industry that wants to sell more products? Or is it really the consumer? I do not believe it is the latter. I believe that citizens in the EU want good food in their supermarkets with a reasonable declaration of the ingredients. In my home country, I see more and more customers choosing organic goods, which signify a good standard of animal welfare and no artificial additives. Finally, I would like to say something about cloned animals – and my thanks to Commissioner Dalli for his comments on this subject. In Europe, we can easily feed ourselves without the need for cloned products. My own small country, with a population of 5.5 million, produces around 25 million pigs and more than 100 million chickens a year without any use of cloning."@en1
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