Also operating was the Compagnia delle Fiamme Gialle of Monopoli
BARI – As part of the device for the prevention and repression of illicit trafficking of an economic and financial nature developed by the Provincial Command of Bari, aimed at guaranteeing adequate protection for the protection of consumers, with specific regard to product safety, the Fiamme Gialle of Bari, from At the beginning of 2024, they seized a total of around 4 million products in the metropolitan area. The investigative action carried out by the Financial Police in this context is aimed at guaranteeing effective consumer protection from the purchase of products illicitly placed on the market and/or potentially dangerous to health. This objective is achieved by carrying out checks aimed at verifying the correct fulfillment of the requirements imposed by sector regulations, both in relation to the presence or absence of harmful substances in certain products and in relation to the minimum information to be indicated on the goods offered for sale provided from the “Consumer Code”. This regulatory compendium establishes, in fact, that the products intended for the consumer, marketed on the national territory, contain at least the indications relating to the legal or product name of the product, the identification of the producer, the possible presence of substances capable of causing potential damage, the materials used and the processing methods, as well as the instructions, any precautions and the intended use (all in Italian), with the aim of guaranteeing the buyer an informed choice and safe use of the product . 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 object of seizure is clothing accessories, 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 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 bearing 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) banned from 1 March 2022, in light of the update, at community level, of the list of substances considered “Carcinogenic, Mutagenic, toxic for Reproduction”.
