MEPs have this week given overwhelming backing to amendments that would reject the European Commission's proposal to extend the ecolabel to food. A debate in the European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee on 21 January saw one MEP after another speak out against the proposal to cover processed but not fresh foods as well as packaging and transport. The rapporteur (draftsman) on the proposal, Italian MEP Salvatore Tatarella from the small right leaning Union of Europe of the Nations group, kicked off by telling the Committee that referring to processed but not fresh food products was "a source of confusion and discrimination."
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