Since the beginning of 2024, the Guardia di Finanza of the provincial command of Bari has seized a total of around 4 million products illicitly placed on the market or potentially dangerous to health in the metropolitan area.
Among the interventions carried out since the beginning of the year, the seizure, carried out by the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Bari, of 3.7 million plastic plates and cups ready to be placed on the market in the absence of information on the suitability of the material of which they were made to come into contact with food, with potential damage to the health of the consumer. A further 44,000 (approximately) unsafe products were seized by other departments of the Bari Provincial Command, in particular by the Bari Emergency Employment Group, the Bari Metropolitan Operations Unit, the Monopoli Company and the Gioia del Colle Tenenza.
The seized material also includes clothing items, household products, costume jewelery and stationery, souvenirs, work tools and children’s toys (such as key rings, plastic and rubber models, Transformer toy cars, illuminating flash spheres containing liquid gel , spinning tops, musical animals, Christmas pens and sunglasses), lacking the essential safety requirements, warnings or lacking the “CE” marking (European Conformity – certification of conformity of the product with the safety requirements established by EU legislation and national) and therefore potentially dangerous. And even electrical items found to lack, both on the packaging and on the product, information in Italian or without or with false certifications on the essential safety requirements.
The attention of the Fiamme Gialle of Bari has also turned to the cosmetics sector, with the seizure, carried out by the Economic-Financial Police Unit and the Bari Emergency Employment Group, of over 2,500 personal care items found to be dangerous for health as they indicate, on the packaging, the presence of Butylphenyl Methylpropional (substance more commonly referred to as “Lilial”), or a synthetic fragrance used for the preparation of personal care and hygiene products (such as creams, perfumes, deodorants , shampoo and shower gel) prohibited from 1 March 2022.
