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General Melis guides this sector: «Often citizens report. Staple is to leave in peace those who work honesty ”
In Verona the agri -food protection unit performs one year: 140 checks carried out
In Verona the agri -food protection unit performs one year: 140 checks carried out
He turned a year these days. In fact, the Carabinieri Protection Carabinieri of Verona was established on 1 July 2024 as part of a specific enhancement of the entire sector wanted by the Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida, which led to the opening of 7 new nuclei (beyond VeronaBergamo, Florence, Avezzano, Bari, Reggio Calabria and Oristano) and followed by a specialist training course that the military attended at the Forestry Carabinieri School in the province of Rieti. All professionals who came from the territorial, but who have specially specialized and have degrees in the sector.
To direct the Veronese headquarters, Marshal Marco Fainelli: «The Veronese nucleus carried out 140 investigations in different agri -food sectors, positive 85, high administrative sanctions for about 100 thousand euros. By informing the prosecutors and depositing 40 complaints, with both administrative and criminal seizures », Fainelli pitted.
Yesterday, visiting the barracks of via Ederle, the brigadier general, Daniel Melis, commander of the carabinieri for agri -food protection.
“There are three guidelines on which we move,” said the General, “the contrast to fraud Connected to the undue perception of Community and national funds provided in support of the agricultural sector, the protection of safety (qualitative and non -health) of the agri -food sector on the entire supply chain: production, transformation and marketing, approaching that operators respect the community and national sector rules and the controls in the horse racing sector. This is a virtuous region, we have excellent relations with the authorities, the consortia and individual agricultural entrepreneurs with whom we have a continuous information and experiential exchange. Our control action is preceded by a punctual analysis of the risk indicators, in order to concentrate the inspections where we are reasonably sure to find irregularities. It is a firm point of the minister and our action that of leaving those who work honestly in peace, avoiding unnecessary and serious days of inspection, which subtract precious time from the work of entrepreneurs “.
The reports of citizens
The general underlined how frequent reports are frequent in our region: «On our site it is It is also possible to report anonymously“, Explained the general,” in Veneto (our nucleus has the entire region for territorial competence), there are many citizens who report. And I must say that they are always precise indications that lead to results ».
The general cites for example the kidnapping of various tons of rice thanks to a housewife from Villafranca who “cleaning” the rice as it once did, spreading the rice on a canvas and noting differentness between the beans, took the photos and transmitted them to the command. «We proceeded to a control activity that led to the criminal seizure of a rice match reported in label Which origin “Italy” but which was largely found to be, in reality, of non -EU origin “.
As regards the myeliculus sector, the marketing of a conventional honey fraudulently labeled as organic.
Checks in restaurants
“Particular attention was reserved for controls in restaurants, with the intention of protecting the DOP and PGI brand productsverifying their actual use by restaurateurs where they were expressly indicated in the menus proposed to customers “, added Fainelli,” on multiple occasions, however, it emerged that the consumer was administered a conventional product instead of the protected brand. As regards the witty drinks sector, the use of marc for the production of grappa from various territories has been ascertained, instead declaring a specific variety ».
Attention to ethnic restaurants
High attention on markets and ethnic restaurants: checks that have made it possible to contest health crimes, in collaboration with the Nas carabinieri, given the bad condition of the food of the food placed on the market.
As part of the dairy sector, violations have been recorded to the detriment of some important PDOs, such as the DOP buffalo mozzarella from Campania, through the administration of conventional products to customers.
In all these sectors, which are added the wine, oil, oil, oven, fruit and vegetable and legumes, in the first year of activity, numerous checks were carried out that allowed both the referral in a state of freedom to the competent judicial authorities and the commationing of administrative sanctions.