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"I welcome the improvements introduced with this report on food information, which simplifies and updates the rules applicable to labelling by merging the directives into one legislative text. I would also stress the mandatory country of origin marking for a significant range of products, such as vegetables, fish, beef, honey, fruit and oil.
Nonetheless, there is also a need for this marking to become mandatory immediately in the case of milk and dairy products. This is a piece of information that should be clearly provided for consumers. The big distributors, with their own brands, frequently change the origin of the milk inside their packaging, for example UHT milk, without consumers having the faintest idea about it, using this lack of transparency to covertly bring millions of litres with other origins into consumption.
I therefore call for everyone to vote for country of origin marking for dairy products to become mandatory immediately. In conclusion, I would also stress the specific rules for labelling ‘imitation foods’ and the waiver of mandatory nutritional declarations for handcrafted products, which are of the utmost importance to regions like my home region of the Azores."@en1
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