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"Madam President, the UK Health Food Manufacturers Association is non-profit. It represents 120 companies and suppliers; it has a very strong safety record and it knows that safety levels will be set well below what is regarded as safe in the UK in cases where there is no health risk. They know that only 22 additives will be allowed, meaning that potassium sorbate – a vital ingredient for vitamin D drops as recommended by our own Department of Health for children under the age of 36 months – will be banned.
GBP 100 million of sales are at risk. In the UK, over 700 health food stores will be at risk, with 4 000 jobs – all in the SME sector. Across the EU, over EUR 8 billion will be at risk: 5 000 companies and 75 000 jobs. And this report is supposed to be about more competitiveness, sustainability and an inclusive Europe. What is inclusive about shutting out the SMEs so that, once again, it is the big companies that pick up the trade and leave the unemployed from the SMEs to flounder and do what they can?"@en1
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