Traduction de «Groupe Fruits et légumes » (Français → Anglais) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 422 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to nutrition in child and adolescent populations in Canada: (a) does government policy include recognition and acceptance of the principle that Canada’s children and adolescents are entitled to nutritious food (i) regardless of where they live, (ii) regardless of their family income, (iii) particularly when economic forces undermine efforts by parents and caregivers to ensure healthy eating; (b) given that the 1992 World Declaration on Nutrition, to which Canada was a signatory, states that access to nutritionally adequate and safe food is a right of each individual, what specific actions have the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Health Canada undertaken for ...[+++]children and adolescents in order to fulfill this commitment; (c) what percentage of children and adolescents in Canada is food insecure, (i) do disparities exist, including, but not limited to, disability status, ethnicity, gender, geography, socio-economic status, (ii) if so, specify; (d) what percentage of children and adolescents lives below the poverty line, (i) do disparities exist, including, but not limited to, disability status, ethnicity, gender, geography, socio-economic status, (ii) if so, specify; (e) what percentage of children and adolescents has, as a result of living below the poverty line, (i) poor nutritional status, (ii) poor health outcomes due to their poor nutritional status; (f) what percentage of members of each of the following groups is food insecure, (i) child and adolescent newcomers, (ii) children and adolescents who live in poverty, (iii) children and adolescents who live in priority neighbourhoods, (iv) Aboriginal children and adolescents; (g) what percentage of children and adolescents (i) involuntarily misses meals, (ii) lacks healthy variety in its diet; (h) does the government have information, and, if so, what is that information, concerning (i) how (g)(i) and (g)(ii) impact the caloric a ...

(Return tabled) Question No. 21 Mr. Paul Dewar: With regard to the government's intention to harmonize regulations on pesticide residue limits for fruits and vegetables with those of the United States: (a) what evidence does the government have that shows that there will not be an increase in pesticide residue on fruits and vegetables; (b) what safeguards are in place to ensure that Canadians are not exposed to higher levels of pesticide residue on fruits and vegetables; (c) will independent and peer-review tests continue to be used to determine pesticide limits and the cumulative effect of the resulting residue on health and the envir ...[+++]onment; and (d) what are the implications to Canada's sovereign right to determine regulatory standards, affecting Canadian food security and food safety, in adopting foreign standards for regulations of pesticide residue limits?

39. Recalls that on 14 December 2001 the Council adopted a resolution stating that the consumption of fruit and vegetables is an effective way of promoting public health, as demonstrated by the Commission's DG SANCO in a document dating from 2002; notes that this position was officially bolstered by the Global Plan of Action for Nutrition presented by the WHO; therefore suggests that general campaigns be financed by the Commission to encourage the consumption of fruit and vegetables produced in the EU (e.g. school projects), in view ...[+++] of the decrease in the consumption of fruit and vegetable products, which is worrying from the point of view of health factors; in addition calls for the introduction of a specific promotion mechanism that may be used to promote the consumption of products in connection with which production forecasts indicate the likelihood of a crisis arising as a result of a production surplus; also calls for advertising campaigns to take account of the latest scientific findings in the field of nutrition and, accordingly, to promote the consumption of unprocessed or lightly processed fruit and vegetables, with particular emphasis on organically grown products and on regional and local varieties of fruit and vegetables in order to strengthen biodiversity;

38. Recalls that on 14 December 2001 the Council adopted a resolution stating that the consumption of fruit and vegetables is an effective way of promoting public health, as demonstrated by the Commission's DG SANCO in a document dating from 2002; notes that this position was officially bolstered by the Global Plan of Action for Nutrition presented by the WHO; therefore suggests that general campaigns be financed by DG SANCO to encourage the consumption of fruit and vegetables produced in the EU (e.g. school projects), in view of th ...[+++]e decrease in the consumption of fruit and vegetable products, which is worrying from the point of view of health factors; in addition calls for the introduction of a specific promotion mechanism that may be used to promote the consumption of products in connection with which production forecasts indicate the likelihood of a crisis arising as a result of a production surplus; also calls for advertising campaigns to take account of the latest scientific findings in the field of nutrition and, accordingly, to promote the consumption of unprocessed or lightly processed fruit and vegetables, with particular emphasis on organically grown products and on regional and local varieties of fruit and vegetables in order to strengthen biodiversity;

Ms. Mary L'Abbé: I'm from Health Canada, yes, and in trying to deal with the idea of labelling these raw fruits and vegetables and the meat and poultry products, we assembled a group of industry representatives.

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES - COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKETS IN FRUIT AND VEGETABLES AND COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKETS IN PRODUCTS PROCESSED FROM FRUIT AND VEGETABLES The Council held a policy debate on this matter, on the basis of the intensive work already done by the Special Committee on Agriculture and the Working Party.