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"Mr President, I would like to join in congratulating Mrs Emilia Franziska Müller on her excellent work on this directive.
There are two principles that govern Community food legislation on which, fortunately, this directive is also based: food safety and the guarantee that the label provides adequate and correct information. It is essential that we remove any risk to the health of consumers caused by free choice, and ensure that they can make their choice based on accurate and clear information that does not lead to confusion or deception. Consumers must have access to clear instructions on the dosage and use of the product. In many cases, as had already been said, it has been found that ingesting some food supplements in excessive doses causes serious health problems. This is not acceptable, and we need to ensure, through Community legislation, that there is good, consistent information across all the Member States.
Focusing on Article 2, both the work of Mrs Emilia Franziska Müller and that of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy as a whole provide a legal concept of a balanced food supplement. The scope of application is neither too limited nor so wide that it enables products that do not comply with what a food supplement is to come under the definition.
With regard to Annex I, I think that, finally, the proposal from the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy, which has been successively extended with compromise amendments, is correct and should be adopted by this House.
With regard to Article 5, which sets out the maximum quantities of vitamins and minerals in food supplements, according to letters a), b) and c) of paragraph 1, I think it is necessary to keep these sections, as the approach that we should take in Europe should be strict, maintaining control of the maximum level of vitamins and minerals based on the maximum safe intake levels. On this point, I would support the idea that a European approach should opt for greater defence of consumers as opposed to an option of greater deregulation. In this respect I welcome the fact that we are 16 against 15."@en1
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