MELAMINE AND WINE "chlorine" The most striking cases
Sixth report on food security: increased by 142% kilos seized by Nas
ROME - Tons of rotten food, from cheese to meats, fish out of date or in poor condition conservation. There are thousands of fraud discovered by the police in 2008, an increase of pounds of goods confiscated 142% by Nas and even to +642% in value from the Inspection for control of product quality ( ICQ).
REPORT - The figures emerge from the sixth report on food safety "at the table Italy 2009 ', drafted by the citizen and Legambiente Defence Movement, which reveals a real boom of seizures of food by the law enforcement agencies in 2008. A survey which gives an account of all transactions carried out by security forces and institutions and this year is enriched by the contribution of the Customs and the police for agricultural policies.
THE NUMBERS - In total, more than 34 million pounds of goods confiscated by the Police for the Protection of Health (Nas) to a value of approximately EUR 160 million. The increase in kilograms seized and their value compared to 2007 is significant: respectively 142% and 32%. More figures are the results of inspections carried out by the Inspectorate for the control of product quality (ICQ): 181 million euro which 172 million only in the wine sector.
CONTROLS - Intense control activities: over 28 thousand inspections by Nas, from 37 thousand dell'ICQ 157mila well in this industry by the Coast Guard. The operations of Nas brought out a 5866 crime, the arrest of 49 people and the closure of 836 facilities for public health reasons. Major figures of the results of inspections carried out dall'ICQ: € 181 million including 172 million in the wine sector. They were, however, about 53 thousand operations of the Customs Agency. Then there are the activities of the Forest (766 operations) and the Carabinieri of Agriculture (969). The monitoring activities Coast Guard has instead led to the seizure of about 330 000 pounds of fish and more than 5.5 million euro penalty imposed. The main fraud concerns the discovery of products in poor condition or otherwise unfit for human consumption. In all of 2008 were found more than 220 thousand kilograms of product.
RISK OF IMPORT - Imports of food products sector amounted annually to more than 13 million tons, worth about 8 billion euro. This amount of goods, the Customs Agency in 2008 carried out some 53,000 inspections. The results of checks of luggage of passengers carried in 2007, the seizure of approximately 20 000 kg of products animals (meat, meat products, milk and dairy products). The discrepancies discovered in 2008 during these checks are about 1,200 and resulted in the seizure of over 1,800 tons of food and meat. As for the Community Alert System in 2008 showed an increase in notifications (+3.6%) with 3040 reports. The main problem concerns the mycotoxin, found mainly in nuts, and Salmonella. Also this year is China (with 513 notifications) the country from which the main products illegal. Followed by Turkey (311).
The most striking cases - 2008 may be remembered for the many food scares, from wine to acid hydrochloric discovered Veronella (VR), the emergency milk scandal pig meat to dioxin. And more: 54 tons of frozen fish products have expired or in bad condition found in Bari, "fish mouse" (from the North Atlantic) sold as "hearts of cod," impounded two containers containing 40 tons of Ravenna because rice flour contaminated by melamine. As if this were not enough fraud to the Made in Italy and the typical products of our territory, from the 30 arrest warrants issued in April for possible scam aimed at the production and sale of extra virgin olive oil sophisticated. It was soybean oil mixed with the sunflower a cui veniva aggiunto betacarotene e clorofilla industriale.
ACCUSE ALL'AGENZIA EUROPEA - «Se la strada per uscire dalla crisi economica passa, a detta degli esperti, per la valorizzazione e promozione delle risorse tipiche del Belpaese, e quindi in primis dell'agroalimentare di qualità con le sue tradizioni e la sua notorietà all'estero - ha dichiarato Francesco Ferrante, della segreteria nazionale di Legambiente - la lotta alle contraffazioni e ai criminali che lucrano sulla fiducia e la salute dei cittadini diventa attività fondamentale e irrinunciabile. E se i dati di oggi dimostrano l'efficacia dei controlli, emerge con più forza la necessità di investire in prevenzione, attraverso un più serio e puntuale lavoro degli agencies, from the European Food Safety Agency, which until now has rather conspicuous by their absence if not for subservience to the economic interests of a few large agribusiness groups '
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