Food additives other than colours and sweeteners

The rapporteur, Mrs Rijs-Jorgesen (ELDR, DK), maintained that processed euchema seaweed, which was produced in the Philippines, was a less purified product than the seaweed-based extract used in the EU (carrageenan) and for this reason could not be placed in the same category (E407). Commissioner Bjerregaard’s only reply was to call on Parliament to reject the amendment, since the product in question had been judged as entirely acceptable by the International Scientific Committee on Food.