WRITTEN QUESTION No. 2201/97 by Hiltrud BREYER to the Commission. Novel food regulation No 258/97 - Access to data on novel food products (SUPPLEMENTARY ANSWER)
C 174/10 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 8. 6. 98 (98/C 174/41) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2195/97 by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission (25 June 1997) Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Recording the origins of novel food products Are manufacturing firms obliged, as part of quality control, to keep a record of the origin of all ingredients used in food production and, where required, to forward such records to the authorities? (98/C 174/42) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2197/97 by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission (25 June 1997) Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Assessing the effects of the consumption of novel food products 1. How, and by whom, is the monitoring system called for by the Scientific Committee for Food (opinion on the assessment of novel foods, III/5915/97) for gathering information on the short- and long-term effects of the consumption of novel foods to be carried out once it has been introduced? 2. What data are to be recorded and over what period? 3. Will the results of the monitoring programme be made available to the public? (98/C 174/43) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2199/97 by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission (25 June 1997) Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Recording data on novel food products What authorities are responsible, pursuant to the novel food regulation, for recording data in databases on all products which are approved or which have been registered? (98/C 174/44) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2201/97 by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission (25 June 1997) Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Access to data on novel food products Will there be public access to these data banks, or will some data be subject to confidentiality? (98/C 174/45) WRITTEN QUESTION E-2203/97 by Hiltrud Breyer (V) to the Commission (25 June 1997) Subject: Novel food regulation No 258/97 › Publication of data on novel food products Will both the scientific data that have been submitted and the evaluation of such data be published?