Relaxing the controls and checks for radioactive contamination of food and feed from Fukushima, as the European Commission has proposed, is not an issue on which the European Parliament will have any discussion: the precautionary principle has to apply.
MEPs voted in Strasbourg on Wednesday 13 September to veto the Commission’s draft implementing regulation that seeks both to cut the checks on rice and rice-based products, some species of fish, and crustaceans and molluscs as a whole and...