The Guardia di Finanza of Turin seized a large quantity of food of various kinds, which resulted not in compliance with the regulatory requirements on the subject. of origin and conservation.
In particular, the Financiers of the Pronto Employment Group have identified, in the "Porta Palazzo" district of the Piedmontese capital, an underground warehouse managed by the owner of a market, inside which thousands of packages of dried fish (including tilapia, cod, pangasius, mackerel and croaker), legumes and spices bearing false product information regarding their origin.
On the packaging of the food found, in fact, for fish and vegetable products, the African continent and Japan were indicated as the place of origin, respectively, despite being entirely originating, the former from Thailand and China and the latter from Mexico.
In this regard, the legislation on the import of food provides that for certain categories of products from countries defined as "at risk" (including China), the control bodies must carry out specific checks before authorizing their marketing in Italy.
During the intervention, the Green Basques also found, inside some refrigerator-freezer counters, fish and poultry in a bad state of conservation, for which the indications concerning the dates of packaging and expiry date.
Over 1 ton of products, worth 250 thousand euros, have been protected by the Financiers who, following the outcome of the qualitative / quantitative assessments ordered by the Turin Public Prosecutor's Office, will arrange for their subsequent destruction.
An Italian entrepreneur was reported to the competent judicial authority for commercial fraud, false indications of origin and provenance and poor state of preservation of food. ■
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