With the exception of solid foodstuffs preserved exclusively in olive oil, in particular the products referred to in Council Regulations (EEC) No 1536/92 (7) and (EEC) No 2136/89 (8), where the presence of oils as referred to in Article 1(1) of this Regulation in a foodstuff, other than those referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, is stated on the labelling elsewhere than in the list of ingredients, using words, images or graphics, the trade description of the foodstuff shall be directly followed by the percentage of olive oil as referred to in Article 1(1) of this Regulation relative to the total net weight of the foodstuff.

In addition to harming European industry, counterfeiting of medicines and foodstuffs endangers the lives of European consumers, and the outcome can be fatal.

45. In the context of OLAF’s activities, it is important to distinguish between controls and inquiries, on the one hand, and administrative and criminal inquiries on the other (e.g. in cases of adulterated food products).

Food producers are obliged to take into account the presence of these substances when using food ingredients with flavouring properties and/or flavourings for preparation of all food to ensure that food which is not safe is not placed on the market.

create a pan-European black list of any economic agent involved in the falsification of olive oil and other food products and to cancel immediately any financial support to them.

Whereas the EFTA Surveillance Authority should progressively work towards a system which would permit the estimation of actual pesticide dietary exposure, as provided for in the second paragraph of Article 7(3) of Directive 86/362 and the second paragraph of Article 4(3) of Directive 90/642; whereas to facilitate examination of the feasibility of such estimations, data concerning the monitoring of residues of pesticides in a number of food products which constitute major components of European diets should be available; whereas in v ...[+++]iew of the resources available at national level for pesticide residue monitoring, the EFTA States are only able to analyse samples of four to five products each year within a coordinated monitoring programme; whereas each pesticide should generally be monitored in 20 food products over a series of five-year cycles;