Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-12-16-Speech-1-095"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-12-16"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20021216.8.1-095"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Marit Paulsen2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Folkpartiet liberalerna (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2003-04-29)3 substitute; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-02-17--2002-12-17)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-06--2004-04-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I am old enough to remember the vigorous debate on irradiated food that raged throughout Europe 15 to 20 years ago. It was very similar to the debate on GM foods we have today. It is a fact that unified scientific opinion, the WHO and the FAO say that irradiation in itself is not at all hazardous. It is therefore safe to say that recitals I and J of this report are quite misleading. The technology is presumably good for those parts of the world in which food safety quite simply means having anything at all to eat. Having said that, I would, however, also insist that there is no reason whatsoever in modern Europe for irradiating anything other than, specifically, spices. That is something there are good reasons for doing, because other methods of sterilising spices are still less appropriate from health and environmental points of view. In other cases, it is unnecessary to use this technology in a part of the world, and in a system, in which we work incredibly hard to create a high level of safety throughout the food chain. If we maintain a sufficiently high level of hygiene, apply good production practice and ensure that the refrigeration and freezing chain remains unbroken, we have no need for a technology that and I am not saying that this always happens – be misused to conceal a lack of hygiene or deficiencies in the refrigeration chain etc. It is a touch too difficult to monitor this. Naturally, we can say that this treatment is all right, if it is only apparent from the labelling, but I think that the risks of this technology’s being abused are too great. I do not believe it is dangerous, but I think it is extremely inappropriate for ourselves."@en1
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