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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8291

6 September 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/food safety
MPA food contamination: Commissioner Byrne and European Parliament stress lack of control on application of Community legislation on waste

Strasbourg, 05/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - Presenting, on Thursday before the European Parliament, a European Commission declaration on recent contamination of the food chain within the EU, especially MPA (medroxy-progesterone acetate) contamination, Commissioner David Byrne acknowledged the fact that the legislation on waste had not been correctly applied and that controls on its implementation by Member States were neither sufficient nor effective. He proposed increasing sanctions and the...

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