Snoweagle
17th October 2012, 20:51
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EU food labelling law spotlights strength of industry lobbying
EU agencies rebuked over spending
Green light for ex-commissioner's lover to join his new lobby firm
By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - The European Commission has defended its choice of a food industry lobbyist to help run its food regulator, the European Food Safety Agency (Efsa) in Parma, Italy.
"Frewen wants the job because of her 'personal interest' as a 'scientist" (Photo: Masahiro Ihara)
The commission on 10 February chose Mella Frewen - the president of Brussels-based lobby group FoodDrinkEurope, who previously worked for Monsanto, a US producer of genetically modified food - as one of 14 candidates to join the Efsa management board.
If selected by a European Parliament jury in the next few weeks, she will keep her FoodDrinkEurope post while doing the unpaid Efsa job.
Commission spokesman Frederic Vincent said Frewen went forward "based on capability" and under an Efsa rubric which says the board should have people with a "background in organisations representing consumers and other interests in the food chain."
Efsa spokesman Ian Palombi said the board runs day-to-day internal business, but the scientific panels that decide which products get the green light are composed of "independent experts."
http://euobserver.com/institutional/115532
Start writing letters, sending emails, make YT commentaries/documentaries and advise people to wake up. This level of conflict of interest is plain genocidal. This is the sewer stench of corruption in its most blatant form. It must be challenged and it must be stopped.
EU food labelling law spotlights strength of industry lobbying
EU agencies rebuked over spending
Green light for ex-commissioner's lover to join his new lobby firm
By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - The European Commission has defended its choice of a food industry lobbyist to help run its food regulator, the European Food Safety Agency (Efsa) in Parma, Italy.
"Frewen wants the job because of her 'personal interest' as a 'scientist" (Photo: Masahiro Ihara)
The commission on 10 February chose Mella Frewen - the president of Brussels-based lobby group FoodDrinkEurope, who previously worked for Monsanto, a US producer of genetically modified food - as one of 14 candidates to join the Efsa management board.
If selected by a European Parliament jury in the next few weeks, she will keep her FoodDrinkEurope post while doing the unpaid Efsa job.
Commission spokesman Frederic Vincent said Frewen went forward "based on capability" and under an Efsa rubric which says the board should have people with a "background in organisations representing consumers and other interests in the food chain."
Efsa spokesman Ian Palombi said the board runs day-to-day internal business, but the scientific panels that decide which products get the green light are composed of "independent experts."
http://euobserver.com/institutional/115532
Start writing letters, sending emails, make YT commentaries/documentaries and advise people to wake up. This level of conflict of interest is plain genocidal. This is the sewer stench of corruption in its most blatant form. It must be challenged and it must be stopped.