Therefore with regard to official controls on feed and food, the national control plans should cover all feed and food law including, for example, feed and food hygiene, materials in contact with food, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), irradiation (2), quality and compositional requirements of feed and food law, labelling, nutritional aspects, organic farming, agricultural products and foodstuffs as traditional specialities guaranteed (3) and protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs (4).

And we are trying to ensure that food is comprehensively labelled.

5. Active and intelligent materials and articles already brought into contact with food shall be adequately labelled to allow identification by the consumer of non-edible parts.

7. Calls on the Commission to require annual random testing of food by all Member States to prevent illegally irradiated, unlabelled products from being sold and to require all results to be made publicly available with tough action against breaches of the law;

4. In the case of an application relating to a GMO for food use, references to ‘food’ in paragraph 3 shall be interpreted as referring to food containing, consisting of, or produced from the GMO in respect of which an application is made or derived from animals fed with feed consisting of, containing or produced from GMOs if the feed is labelled in accordance with this regulation.

In total, 117 samples of food were analysed and six samples tested positive for irradiation and were not correctly labelled.