(ANSA) – LIVORNO, JUN 24 – Personnel from the Customs Agency of Livorno and the Guardia di Finanza of the Tuscan city intercepted and blocked at the Livorno port a huge cargo, coming from Ethiopia and imported by a Marche company, of fine teff cereal, gluten-free for celiacs and also useful in low-glycemic diets: wheat was found to be treated with a substance toxic to human health, propiconazole, a pesticide definitively banned by European legislation from 2019, with the regulation of execution of the EU 2018/1865.
The operation, called ‘Healthy bread’, coordinated by the public prosecutor of Livorno, is the result, explains a note, “of the operational synergy of the anti-fraud department of the Livorno Customs and Yellow Flames Office carried out on the agri-food products arriving at port “toscano. This is how the Adm officials and the financiers “targeted the huge load of teff”: “The suspicions arose at the outcome of the control of the economic and fiscal consistency of the importer and of a report received. Under the coordination of the pm holder of the investigations “, the ASL was interested in the analyzes on the cereal” whose outcome confirmed the doubts: the cargo had been treated with propiconazole “. The searches were also started at the company and the home of the owner of the importing company “with the seizure of copious accounting, commercial and telematic documentation useful for reconstructing the entire production, distribution and commercial chain. The preventive seizure of the load of teff whose commercial value has been estimated at around 220,000 euros. (ANSA).
Source: Ansa
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