(ANSA) - ROME, NOVEMBER 25 - Food alarms have increased by 31% in Italy, with 389 notifications sent from our country to the EU, of which eight out of ten (80%) concerned foods from abroad.
This is what emerges from the Coldiretti dossier on the "Black list of the most dangerous foods on the shelves" sold in Italy, released on the occasion of the Coldiretti International Agriculture and Food Forum.
With the increase in food prices, the association says, the presence of imported low-cost foods is growing, based on the latest Annual Report of the European Commission on the European Rapid Alert System published in 2022.
Low-cost Polish chicken meat, citrus fruits such as mandarins and grapefruit from Turkey, Turkish peppers, Brazilian black pepper and sesame seeds from India, fashionable for healthy salads, are at the top of the "blacklist" of the most dangerous products for health taken over in the EU, which also includes oranges from Egypt for the first time.
At the top of the ranking of the countries from which the most contaminated products arrive, Coldiretti says, is Turkey, present three times in the top ten of the most dangerous foods and responsible for 13% of the alarms triggered in Europe.
Followed by India and Poland, responsible for 8% of the total notifications, but concerns also come from China, which accounts for almost half of the notifications relating to materials in contact with food,
due to the presence of unauthorized substances in plastic products, such as bamboo and the migration of aromatic amines, melamine and formaldehyde.
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