43 ordspråk av Philip Tod
Philip Tod
This legislation is not related to the current case of contamination in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
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Veterinary controls on the farm and at slaughter, and the flow of information from stable to table, protect EU consumers against any potential risk,
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Veterinary controls on the farm and at slaughter, and the flow of information from stable to table, protect EU consumers against any potential risk.
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We are concerned enough that we have instituted this ban to avoid risking importing the disease into the EU from an infected country. But we are not able to say what type of virus we are talking about - or how pathogenic it is.
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We are taking the additional precaution of defining high-risk areas to act as a buffer zone between infected areas and unaffected parts of a member state.
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We are working on the assumption that it is also the H5N1 virus and all the measures have been adopted with that in mind,
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We are working on the assumption that it is also the H5N1 virus and all the measures have been adopted with that in mind.
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We cannot lower our guard.
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We don't have avian influenza in commercial poultry in the European Union and we consider that poultry meat and eggs, especially when properly cooked, pose no risk to human health,
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We don't have avian influenza in commercial poultry in the European Union and we consider that poultry meat and eggs, especially when properly cooked, pose no risk to human health.
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We have offered all assistance possible.
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We hope this will rally member states around the authorization process. We want practical improvements in the system.
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We welcome the fact that an important actor in the food and drinks industry has put forward concrete commitments.
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