HEALTH CHECKS ON FOOD SHOULD BE EASED SAY MEPS
December 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBERS of the European Parliament have called for a "common-sense" easing of "complicated" spot-checks on food industry suppliers, required for the payments of European Union (EU) subsidies. These checks cover food health standards, livestock welfare, environmental production controls and others, but a parliament motion agreed that since they were introduced in 2003, they have "proved very complicated to manage", especially for local regulators and small-scale farmers. MEPs said such spot-checks should be eased - ...
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