Схвалений у першому читанні Верховною Радою України законопроект № 8493 from 12.05.2011 in current form would cause significant damage to producers of food, but does not solve the problem of celiac disease.
This statement was made president of the Association "Ukrkondprom" O.Baldynyuk.
"The main scientific and expert management of Parliament, actually, implicitly recognizes, that public awareness of the presence of gluten in food diagnostics at current levels is useless. According to him, in Ukraine about half a million people suffering from celiac disease, in time he, officially diagnosed with this disease only 512 people. This means, almost all, who have celiac disease latent, can only guess that, gluten that is able to harm them. Therefore,, About gluten label today is similar to the firing of guns on the wheel krupnokalibernoyi: expensive and inefficient ", – наголосив О.Балдинюк.
He drew attention to the fact, that gluten doses, that are dangerous for people, celiac disease, found in almost all foods, getting there through a variety of ingredients, nutritional supplements, preservatives, etc..
According to the head "Ukrkondpromu", such a law profanuye struggle with celiac disease. For effective implementation of government programs diagnosis and proper information of vulnerable groups, creating additional cash flow, which will be sent to laboratories and regulatory bodies.
"The scheme free. According to the current edition of this law must be applied labeled "gluten free" on each and every food, including. those, are not a product of the processing of cereals and does not contain gluten protein. But every label on every batch of products must be verified paid laboratory analysis. These costs would be for the manufacturer and price, finally, покладені на плечі споживачів» – підкреслив О.Балдинюк.
As a result, suffer as a consumer, and producer.
As he gf hour, the dumku O.Baldinûka, the best solution to the problem may be adopting in the second reading of the bill amendments, developed by people's deputy of Ukraine V.Pyeryedyeriyem. They include the marking "gluten-free" (gluten-free) or 'very low gluten content " (very low gluten) by the decision of the manufacturer if laboratory tests confirm.
Пропоновані В. Пєрєдєрієм поправки, fully comply with European Union legislation, including, Директиві Європейської Комісії № 41/2009 from 20.01.2009 y. and standard CODEX STAN 118-1979.
But, according to the "Ukrkondpromu", such measures must also be accompanied by policies to improve public protection celiac disease, updating problem of celiac disease among the medical community and public authorities.
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