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Title : Officials bust gang in organic fraud case involving rotten apples
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Source : Food Safety News
Year : 2019
Link : https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2019/07/officials-bust-gang-in-organic-fraud-case-involving-rotten-apples/
Country : World
Commodity: All Food
Abstract: European authorities have uncovered an operation allegedly making products out of decomposed apples, contaminated with mycotoxins and other toxic chemicals, unsuitable for human consumption and dangerous for public health. Italian and Serbian authorities said they cracked the fraud ring that engaged in production and trade of allegedly organic food and beverages from rotten apples. In a joint action, coordinated by Eurojust, nine suspects of an alleged organized crime group were arrested. Illegal assets worth €6 million