EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT MEMBERS ASK FOR TOUGH PUNISHMENTS AGAINST FOOD PRODUCERS INVOLVED IN HORSEMEAT FRAUD
February 1st, 2013
Members of the European Parliament committee on public health and food safety last night (Monday) demanded severe punishments for food manufacturers found guilty of mislabelling horsemeat as beef. During a heated debate in Brussels with representatives of the European Commission and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) German Christian Democrat MEP Renate Sommer said: “We need tough penalties,” said the. “It needs to be expensive to do stuff like this and the name of the companies should be published,” she added.While some MEPs believed European ...
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