Rich Murray: European Union: Consumer Voice (June 2001, Edition 1): public involved in food safety 6.27.1 rmforall

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Rich Murray: European Union: Consumer Voice (June 2001, Edition 1):

public involved in food safety 6.27.1 rmforall

June 27 2001 Here is a huge advance in the quality of food safety

information, in terms of the decisions made, the rapid and detailed

informing of the public, and the openness to public feedback. Send

feedback to sanco-newsletter@... The website is

http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/health_consumer/newsletter/

--- Consumer Voice (June 2001, Edition 1)

Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 17:14:49 +0100

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To: rmforall@...

Consumer Voice (June 2001, Edition 1)

Consumer Voice Newsletter on food safety, health and consumer policy

from the Directorate General for Health and Consumer Protection

June 2001, Edition 1

- To view this newsletter on our web site,

go to http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/health_consumer/newsletter/

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French and German editions will be available on our web site

(see above) within a couple of days.

IN THIS ISSUE

[1] Editorial

[2] Tough Measures will Come Into Force Against TSEs in July

[3] Stringent controls for the use and disposal of animal by-products

[4] European Food Authority Moving Towards 2002

In Brief

[5] Citizens Input to Commission Thinking on Food Quality

[6] Health Council Roundup

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[1] Editorial

This is the first edition of our new electronic newsletter,

Consumer Voice, covering all of the

policy areas of my Directorate-General's responsibilities.

These are wide ranging, but fall into three broad

categories: food safety, public health, and consumer protection.

It is part of the European Commission's

drive towards making the range of initiatives

undertaken on behalf of our citizens more readily accessible. I am

personally committed to providing information on all of our activities

in the most transparent manner possible.

The newsletter brings together into one publication our two paper

publications, Prevention and Consumer Voice. In the past, Prevention

dealt exclusively with health issues,

and Consumer Voice, which began as a

consumer-specific magazine, later expanded its brief to take on food

safety issues as well as other topics of broader interest.

I hope you will like the new integrated publication.

Published monthly, the new Consumer Voice will be available on our web

site and will be sent to those of you

who need it quickly in a text version by e-mail.

It will be published in English, and within days, also in French

and German. In contrast to the previous magazines

that were published in a limited number of paper copies

delivered by post, this will get to you

more frequently and more speedily.

We do not plan to swamp you with large quantities of information

in this newsletter, but to touch on and give background to our

legislative, administrative, scientific and political decision-making.

Links throughout will take you directly to our web site

where you can access more in-depth

information on any of the issues described.

A feature of Consumer Voice that was particularly appreciated was views

from outside the Commission. We still want to hear what you think and,

where we can, we will air them in the newsletter. So do please continue

to share your views with us by post or by e-mail.

Byrne

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