Italy: Here is the black list of the most dangerous foods

Published 2021년 11월 19일

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In 2020, Italy saw nearly one food safety alert daily, with 297 notifications to the European Union, the majority involving contaminated foods from other EU countries and non-EU nations like India, Turkey, and Poland. Products such as Indian sesame seeds, Polish chicken meat, and Turkish produce have been identified as posing health risks due to various impurities. This issue is of concern to Italian consumers, with 87% calling for a ban on products from countries that do not adhere to EU social, safety, and health standards. Ettore Prandini, president of Coldiretti, has stressed the importance of reciprocity in commercial relations, highlighting the need for imported goods to meet the same social, health, and environmental standards as Italian and EU productions.

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In Italy almost one food alarm was triggered a day with as many as 297 notifications sent to the European Union during 2020, of which only 56 (19%) concerned products with national origin, while 160 came from other European Union states (54 %) and 81 from non-EU countries (27%). This is what emerges from the Coldiretti dossier on "The black list of the most dangerous foods" presented by Coldiretti (www.coldiretti.it) at the XIX International Forum of Agriculture and Food on the basis of the findings of the latest report of the Alert System rapid European (RASFF), which records alerts for verified food hazards due to chemical residues, mycotoxins, heavy metals, microbiological pollutants, dioxins or additives and dyes in the European Union in 2020. In Italy - underlines Coldiretti - over eight out of ten food alarms have therefore been triggered due to dangerous foods from abroad (81%). From sesame seeds from India in fashion for healthy salads to low-cost chicken meat from Poland, ...

Source: Coldiretti