ROME - The Chinese tomato paste "exists but arrives in Italy only to be aimed at foreign markets", while 98.5% of Italian tomatoes used for past, pulp and peeled: so the National Association of Vegetable Preserves ( Anicav) responds to the alarm launched by Coldiretti about the increase in imports of Chinese tomato equal to 520%. And '' an 'urban legend' that is creating damage to the chain and panic among consumers ", notes the Anicav in a statement.
In Italy only preserves from fresh tomato Italian. "Pass, pulp and peeled - says the association - represent 98.5% of the tomatoes that arrive on our tables, and it's all Italian. In Italy consumption of concentrate is only 1.5% of all derivatives. " The Anicav you say so "ready to sit down at a table with producers and processors to enforce data in hand, the transparency with which always operate our businesses and strongly condemn any kind of fraud." For the president, Antonio Ferraioli, "the Chinese concentrated there, but here comes in 'temporary import' - a favorable customs regime called TPA (inward processing)."
Chinese concentrated only in Africa (but with brand made in Italy?). In "temporary system" means, technically, that is added to water, canned in smaller packages and sold outside the EU (usually in African markets). It 'true that need, especially in Africa, for products such as ketch-up, but the passage in Italy suggests uses more in line with the tradition of our local preserves and peeled. Urban legend investigation of hyenas, urban legend alarm Coldiretti? Urban legend investigation in Naples on counterfeiting and the school canteens where bells were distributed spoiled food fruit business?
Chinese tomatoes: Port Salerno crossroads of black business. Imports of tomato paste from China increased by 520% and by the end of the year could reach 90 million kilograms, representing approximately 10% of domestic production: it detects Coldiretti based on ISTAT figures for the first half 2015, sounded the alarm about the risks related to lack of the obligation to indicate on the label the origin.
"From China - Coldiretti points out in a note - we are witnessing a crescendo of drums vessels landing more than 200 pounds of weight with tomato paste to be reworked and pack as Italian as in retail containers must indicate only the place of packaging, but not the cultivation of tomatoes. " Coldiretti also notes that the "majority of landings takes place in the port of Salerno, in the Campania region, as evidenced by the ratio Agromafie", drafted by crime in agriculture, with Eurispes and Coldiretti.
[Source: blitzquotidiano.it]
