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European food waste 'scandalous', says EFSA director

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"Europe wastes 30 percent of food; it is an ethical scandal," Bernhard Url, executive director of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), has said in an interview to El Pais. A lot of agricultural production gets lost through lack of infrastructure, logistics and knowledge, he said. Imports from as far afield as New Zealand, Chile, Canada make absolute control impossible, he added.

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