EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SAYS SMALL BUSINESSES COULD BE FORCED TO COMPLY WITH HACCP HAZARD CHECK RULES
June 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has voted to give national food regulators authority to insist that some micro-enterprise food manufacturers follow HACCP hazard control point health procedures. MEPs have amended liberalising proposals from the European Commission that all micro-businesses in the food sector selling direct to the consumer should be exempted from EU legislation insisting on such checks. While accepting that for many small businesses, such a requirement was unnecessary and burdensome red tape, the parliament considers that some small food ...
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