Comments on the Food safety white paper are published
The European Commission has published a series of comments from interested parties on the Food safety white paper. The white paper was adopted in January this year. It sets out a major programme of legislative reform to complete the EU's integrated 'farm to table' approach to food safety. It also proposes the establishment of a new European Food Authority. Where contributors have given their permission, the Commission has now published their comments on-line. It received nearly 110 comments on the white paper from other EU institutions, the EU Member State authorities, third country governments, the food and drink industry, agricultural organisations, retailers and distributors of food products, consumer groups and other stakeholders. 'They represent a wide variety of different, and sometime contradictory positions in the white paper approach,' says the Commission, which will take the comments into account when drafting its concrete proposals.