Italy: In Palermo, only foreign oranges are on the market

Oranges at the Palermo market? Spanish, Egyptian and Turkish. The regional product that makes Sicily an international reference is almost non-existent. The source of the news is authoritative and institutional: Luca Ferlito, commander of the operational nucleus of the Sicilian Forestry Corps who made the numbers of the phenomenon public to the Palermo Today newspaper. The foresters are very active in the repression of fraud as evidenced by the latest blitz with the seizure of goods plus penalties for traders who do not comply with the rules on traceability. The commander: "Above all oranges arrive from abroad" The phenomenon is consistent, let's see the numbers provided by the forestry commander: "Every week around 25 thousand kilos of citrus fruits arrive, they are mostly Spanish, Egyptian and Turkish". To underline the solidity of his statements, the commander recalled that in the last blitz the market was searched, a true hunt for non-native oranges with the use of as many as ...