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Food safety: Here are the products most at risk

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

In our country when it comes to labeling on food products you have to do with a real puzzle, to say this is the CIA, Italian Confederation of Agriculture, because unfortunately our domestic market is flooded with food products that are passed off as Italian but instead come from abroad, are prepared with imported raw materials, and often contain elements harmful to health. Not by chance, the federal government dell’agropirateria emphasizes how business is such that the competent authority shall seize food at a pace that has tripled.
But what are the most foreign food products at risk, often among others, are sold at bargain prices? Well, the CIA stressed that care must be taken to products that enter our country illegally ranging from pasta sauces to pasta and passing cheese, canned food, rice, garlic, fish, fresh and processed, but also mushrooms, and fresh, and those prepared and preserved.

And yet, canned tomatoes, olive oil and eggs. The turnover of food products is estimated illegal immigrants in the Italian Farmers Confederation than two billion euros per year, with attendant risks to the health of consumers, and substantial damage to agricultural producers against Italians. Very often, the case of food products that have not expiration date, with countries like China from which a bit ‘of everything: tomatoes and garlic through the vegetables, apples and vegetables.

It must therefore be careful not to be attracted by food products sold at prices far lower than current retail and in any case, you should prefer products with the label, and even those sold through direct sales, i.e. at markets that directly manage the farmers. This way you can be sure to buy local products.

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