<div style="text-align: justify;">"I express my appreciation for the joint operation conducted by the Central Inspectorate of the Quality Safeguarding and Fraud Repression of agri-food products and the Pesaro (Marches) Province Command of the Finance Police. The synergies that develop from such cooperation ensure, once again, the largest consumer protection, the protection of the operators and of the whole agricultural sector. It must be a priority to contrast these phenomena of illegality undermining a key sector for the economy of our country".<br>So the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Mario Catania said about the operation "Green War" recently undertaken by the ICQRF and GdF, which led to a number of searches against operators importing organic products from third countries neighboring the EU (in this specific case, Moldova and Ukraine; products: grains for the livestock sector and, in some cases, for human consumption, in particular, soy, corn, wheat and flax), falsely certified as 'organic' and not complying with EU and national rules. In some cases, agricultural production certified as organic were actually obtained with a high content of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) or contaminated with chemicals banned in organic agriculture.<br><br>To escape the system of controls, some Italian companies, which had the financial management and control of companies operating in Moldova and Ukraine, were clearing the goods at the customs in Malta, at a company run by Italians, to after ship them to Italy. On one occasion, the agricultural products have traveled by road and have passed through the customs in Trieste.<br><br>The survey has confiscated 1,500 tons of corn from Ukraine, falsely certified as organic and 30 tons of processed Indian soy, probably containing banned chemicals banned, for the industrial feed and animal feed. Persons under investigation are 23 and a dozen companies are involved.<br><br>Source: Mipaaf Press Office </div><br>
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