ASSOCIAZIONE DELLE INDUSTRIE DEL DOLCE E DELLA PASTA ITALIANE
AIDEPI
AIDEPI rappresenta una storia industriale da tramandare nel futuro e da esportare nel mondo.
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Lobbying Activity
Response to Commission Regulation setting maximum residue levels for chlorate in or on certain products
14 Feb 2019
UNIONE ITALIANA FOOD represents 450 companies, more than 20 food categories, with 35 billion euros of turnover, including 10 billion euros of export turnover, and 65.000 employees.
We thank the EU Commission for the opportunity to participate to this public consultation on Chlorate as this issue is of particular interest of many of our food sectors represented at European level by several food Associations of which we are members.
In line with the position adopted by FoodDrinkEurope, we believe appropriate to recall the fact that the chlorate residues in the foods can derive exclusively from the use of chlorinated water in many and different steps of food production, e.g. as ingredient, washing, cutting, blanching, reconstitution of concentrated products, as well as in the disinfection of plants and equipments.
Therefore, because the chlorate that can be found in a food is not a residue from a pesticide, we are of the opinion that it cannot be regulated trough the pesticide legislation, taking also into account that the use of chlorate containing pesticides has been banned since 2008.
In relation to the close and exclusive link between the presence of chlorate residues in food and the use of drinking water, we believe that the revision of the Drinking Water Directive must be completed before any decision on amount of chlorate residues in food be taken.
In conclusion, Unione Italiana Food hopes that the debate on setting limits of chlorate in food takes maximum account of the microbiological safety of the food, together with the need for the food business operators to have alternative and effective solutions, not yet available, to protect the consumer health.
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AIDEPI represents the Italian manufacturing industries of Pasta, Breakfast cereal, Chocolate and cocoa-based products, Ice creams, Sugar confectionery, Biscuits and other Fine Bakery products. AIDEPI members are 130 companies which cover the 80% share of the Italian confectionary and pasta market, € 18,6 billion euros turnover (14% share of the Italian food turnover), € 5,8 billion euros export (20% share of the Italian food export).
AIDEPI generally supports the draft implementing EU regulation on origin labelling as per Art 26.3 of Regulation (EU) n°1169/2011. As Food Drink Europe has constantly expressed to the European Commission in the past months, AIDEPI believes that only a harmonized approach at EU level can ensure that consumers receive correct and relevant information without a distortion of the competition and the Single Market. In this regard, we stress the importance of adopting the implementing acts as soon as possible. This would allow business operators and industries to operate once again in a certain legal environment and would avoid that the European acquis is further questioned by individual Member States.
In order to ensure that the approach taken by the Implementing Regulation is feasible and proportionate for Food Businesses Operators while providing meaningful information to consumers, AIDEPI would like to put forward its main comments on the draft text as reported in the attached document. In particular we propose a very simple improvement on the recital 8 concerning "customary names and generic names" and the possibility to indicate the origin of the primary ingredient, where required, in the same field of vision as the list of ingredients and in accordance with Article 13.2 of Regulation (EU) n°1169/2011.
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