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do we really know what's in our food
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lasagna with h meat artificial
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steaks falsely advertised olive oil
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tuner with nitrates the list of
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counterfeit food products is endless
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everything can be faked from the most
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basic product to expensive
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ingredients it's a trade of tens of
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billions of Euros that runs quietly
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across our borders to dive into food
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fraud is to embark on a journey into an
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unknown
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land whistleblowers and Factory workers
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kept in the dark will reveal Hidden
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Truths
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courageous journalists and persistent
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prosecutors will help us understand what
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goes on behind the
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scenes the fight is on against this
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serious crime that involves everyone
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from criminals to Mafia leaders the
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outcome is uncertain as these
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traffickers operate within a gigantic
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Market through which all our food
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transits how did they manage to gain
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control over our food L hidden
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scandalous practices are going to be
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revealed an unprecedented investigation
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into the world of food fraud
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food products are recalled from
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Supermarket shelves on a regular basis
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most of the time we don't even notice
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it yet it makes us doubt our food to
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which we devote a large part of our
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lives and which is as essential as the
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air we breathe
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sometimes the contents can be
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misleading it is late 2012 in Ireland
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the director of food supervision notices
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that the price of beef has dropped he
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orders DNA sampling of meat from 2017
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commercially sold
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Burgers we found one product with about
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one3 horse DNA in us and which was just
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an incredible
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finding we went back and checked we
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double checked and we travel check
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because we understood that if we were to
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go out public with such a story it was
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going to have you know quite an
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effect it started out as hamburger then
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lasagna then m and
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ravioli prevention tests in the spring
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of 2013 revealed horse meat in products
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where it was not
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expected at the time we thought it was
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an Irish problem turned out to be a
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global problem and products have been
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withdrawn from shelves in places like
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Singapore Hong Kong in some of the
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Caribbean countries uh so really we we
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are looking at what's really has
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developed into a massive problem
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it was a fraud in the world of minced
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meat products the most common meat
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product especially in ready-made
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meals this Scandal could have gone
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unnoticed like many others but the Irish
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authorities have made this public and
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their Revelations have raised an
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unprecedented wave of
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outrage ingred kagle started her career
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as an investigator on this case she is a
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member of food watch a European
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organization that protects consumers
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this ingredient replacement involved 4.5
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million ready to eat meals distributed
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by the biggest brands throughout Europe
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who was able to set up such an operation
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a large scale investigation was launched
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a number of Clues led to the Netherlands
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and mobilized the Dutch fraud police
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where is the source of this that was the
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big question who put the the horse meat
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inside the beef
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products Karen gusau is the head of a
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department that has the same
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investigative power as a Narcotics Squad
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17 detectives and financial analysts are
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in charge of tracking down
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fraudsters the main thing that we do
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when we carry out criminal
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investigations uh is to rec construct
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the money flow and the flow of goods and
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connect these
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together the Dutch police investigated
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the Obscure networks of minced meat they
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first identified the manufacturers who
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make beef recipes Behind These
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manufacturers they found several
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wholesalers these wholesalers worked
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with Traders Market Specialists who buy
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and sell online in quantities of
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hundreds of thousands of tons
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the police identified a Dutch meat
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Trader Yan
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Fen so Yan fast is actually someone
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we've known for a long time he first
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caught our attention in
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2008 um when we arrested him exactly
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because of this fact so we were hoping
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uh that would scare him off but then in
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thir
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2013 we discovered that he hadn't
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stopped to cover his tracks Yan Fen
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moved to Belgium where he teamed up with
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among others the owner of this Warehouse
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here they stored Frozen horse meat which
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was half the price of beef two per kilo
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instead of four his profits were
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estimated at 20 million EUR per
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year Yan Fen had to hire an office space
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in a big freezer complex he had an
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employee that was changing labels daily
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he had businesses in in Cyprus and in
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other countries he made a whole business
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of it it was his daily work that doesn't
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sound easy to
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me Yan Fen was the head of a huge
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Network his company was registered in
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Cyprus and imported horse meat from
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Canada and Romania this meat was then
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sold to his associate wholesalers the
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two main ones were located in Belgium
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and France it was at these companies
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that the fraud took place the horse meat
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was transformed into beef by the magic
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of a label the wholesalers sent the fake
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minced meat to Luxembourg to a
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manufacturer of ready-made meals these
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fake products were distributed to
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hundreds of
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supermarkets this Collective misconduct
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has angered a man who is at the heart of
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this
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industry Kristoff brus had been working
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for 20 years as a Trader in major food
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processing groups
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Kristoff brus has decided to break the
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silence as he himself has committed
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fraud
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in 2013 a whistleblower exposed
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widespread fraudulent practices in the
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food processing industry
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Kristoff Bru's findings did not provoke
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the sort of reaction he was expecting
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among the
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manufacturers however his outrage and
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that of millions of European citizens
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has forced the European authorities to
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act it is here in Brussels that the
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major rules concerning food are written
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up it is then up to the individual
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states to implement them
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for Eric Marin an official at the
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European commission the horse meat
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scandal known as horse gate was a
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turning
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point Eric Marine was proud of the
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European health surveillance system he
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discovered that Europe is not well
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equipped to deal with this new problem
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that is affecting our food
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fr
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the food fraud network was created for
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this European officials struggle all
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year long to detect and trap down
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counterfeit food products all accidental
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modifications are dismissed only cases
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of intentional manipulation are
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investigated an African swine fever
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area the Dutch authorities are
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requesting
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for this to happen the 27 European
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states must be flawlessly compliant this
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is not always the case as demonstrated
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by a recent case involving beef it
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happened in
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2019 6 years after horse
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G the Scandal was serious and France was
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at the heart of it this time the fraud
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concerned a public order for 1,500 tons
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of minced Stakes intended to distribute
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to Charities these Charities raised the
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alarm when they discovered the whitish
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color of these Stakes originating from
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Poland why did the French government
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choose po polish suppliers
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European buyers have become fixated on
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polish beef suppliers are undercutting
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prices partially due to highly
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competitive labor costs Poland has
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become one of the world's leading meat
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producers a business that in 2017 was
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worth almost €6 billion e
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the Charities had the Polish Stakes
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delivered to them
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analyzed the results confirmed all their
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suspicions
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beef has been replaced with
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byproducts the substitution is all the
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more shocking since the stakes were
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intended for people in
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need but how do you find out who is
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responsible the European food fraud
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network has no investigative power
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so it is the Polish government that has
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to take
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over the Polish Veterinary authorities
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are launching a series of controls aimed
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at the manufacturer the company bski it
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is one of the new Giants of beef
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production it is subjected to the same
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regulatory obligations as in the rest of
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Europe
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in conclusion there is nothing to
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investigate here we tried to question
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the Polish company's managers but we
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were rejected several
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times meanwhile there is another case
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which two polish journalists have been
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working on for the past 6 months it will
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raise suspicions about the country's
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entire beef
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industry one of them Patrick sapak
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managed to get himself hired in a small
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Countryside slaughter house
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we got a tip that there's some illegal
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procedure happening in one of the
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slaughter houses we knew before that
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there are similar procedure ongoing in
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other solder house but this one we knew
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exactly that this is going
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on the other house itself is in the
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middle of nowhere so there is no
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possibility to take a look without
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getting anyone's attention
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so I changed some of appearance changed
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some of my behavior and went for a job
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interview to the soter house it might
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sound ridiculous but I got the
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job and then the next day I started to
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work as a
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slaughterman the first trucks of cows
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sick or dead ones were coming out
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out like few of them have some rottening
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parts few of them like you know they
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have some white thing going out from
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them through their
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mouth and there was no vet of course
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nearby he just came up in early in the
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morning to check out heads of cows not
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the meat he behaved like the this this
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Bine meat magically pop out in the
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middle of a night and he just comes
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there and I don't see
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anything broadcasted on television their
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investigation triggered a political
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crisis the journalists showed that other
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slaughter houses in the country have the
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same practices they bought cows for meat
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processing at low prices and sold the
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meat at full
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price it got a big effect and then our
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Ministry of Agriculture had to take some
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action
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they ordered massive checkups in every
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single slaughter house in Poland which
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like 400 of
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them but the one who's being expected
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knows about it like in a week in advance
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so there's no surprise
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effect I talked with several former
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Ministers of agricultures and depues
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which told me um that this thing this
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Scandal like everybody knew about that
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is going on but it was convenient to
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basically leave it on and work it
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because it's pure profit
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right meat not fit for consumption
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entered the food chain through a weak
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link the slaughter houses then it spread
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through the entire marketing
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Network the meat from this slaughter
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house where I work was founded in like
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14 countries France Germany Czech
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Republic Saudi Arabia
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the fraud caused a diplomatic crisis at
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the European level inspectors sent by
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Brussels then audited the entire polish
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beef industry their report confirmed
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numerous shortcomings in sanitary
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procedures and traceability
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the state didn't really change the law
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so it's still happening somewhere over
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right how can one effectively fight
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against food fraud when the state
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doesn't even take action
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one country Prides itself on being at
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the Forefront of the fight against fraud
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Italy they are the first country in
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Europe to have put in place detection
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measures yet it is overwhelmed by fraud
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the challenge is in keeping with the
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success of Italian cuisine and the
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worldwide appeal of each of its
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products Vio viaro is one of the few
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Italian magistrates specialized in
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criminal cases involving food
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food fraud affects all Italian
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[Music]
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products how can the Italian authorities
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stop
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it a special unit has been created to
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save the National gastronomic Heritage
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its efforts are focused on one food
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product in particular nine out of 10
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Italians consume it and the demand is
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growing
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rapidly Italian extra virgin olive oil
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is number one on the World Market this
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gem brings in 1.2 billion EUR each year
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for the Italian
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State counterfeits borrow the names of
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real companies to Market their fake
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products
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Italian controllers have the means to
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demand that online sales platforms
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immediately take down fraudulent
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ads to assess the effectiven of this
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system we must dive into the industry
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starting with the olive trees Italy is a
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land of traditional production and one
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region is more so than any other
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Tuscany in the village where Leonardo da
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Vinci was born Luigi carries on the
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tradition of Italian extra virgin olive
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oil he is experiencing a dramatic drop
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in profits
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global warming and the abundance of
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insects are putting a strain on national
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production and yet Luigi notes that big
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Brands Supply the supermarkets of Italy
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and Europe all year long with extra
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virgin olive oil sold at knockdown
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prices
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in order to supply the World Market
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these big manufacturers don't Harvest
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press or produce on site unlike
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Luigi they gather produce and add
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fragrance and their oil is then the
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result of complex blending which
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includes a large portion of imported oil
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this is how the fraud
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Begins the port of leono is the main
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unloading point for goods in
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Tuscany a special system set up by the
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Italian fraud control authorities is in
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place here every day a ship unloads its
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cargo of extra virgin olive oil
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manufacturers bring in the precious
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liquid from all over the Mediterranean
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Bas these Imports will be mixed with the
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national production and sold as Italian
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extra virgin olive oil this is legal
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under one condition that all the
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criteria for extra virgin olive oil be
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met Italian inspectors are looking for
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imported foreign oil of poor quality too
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acidic or not fruity
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enough imitation is easy and if it is
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discovered the oil is simply registered
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in a lower category stating that an
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error has crept into the documents
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random checks at the Port are of very
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little Effectiveness this is why the
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fraud control agents have concentrated
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their efforts on another stage of the
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production
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chain a few kilometers away a producer
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agreed to let us watch how this European
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unique surveillance system
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works per
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a computer program allows the
00:29:01
controllers to follow in real time all
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the producers of extra virgin olive oil
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each delivery must be
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declared before launching an
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investigation the inspector knows
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exactly what he needs to find in the
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tanks the quantity the oil that is
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produced on site the oil that is
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imported everything must be recorded by
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the
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producer this meticulous control is
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equivalent to putting the entire
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production of Italian olive oil under
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administrative supervision
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okay while everything seems to be in
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order with this producer random samples
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will be taken and sent for analysis this
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is the only way to ensure the
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authenticity of the extra virgin olive
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oil is there a double standard between
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small manufacturers and large ones
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it is rumored among producers that the
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Italian authorities tend to spare the
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major producers of the market all the
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while the quality of their oil is
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regularly called into question by
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independent bodies in May
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2021 the consumer protection magazine
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salvagente tested 15 bottles of oil from
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Major
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Brands they were sent to public
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Laboratories for analysis the result was
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that s out of 15 bottles were not extra
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virgin
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[Music]
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it almost seems like encouragement for
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criminals
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further south in pulia lies the largest
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area of intensive olive oil
00:31:43
production it's here that traffickers
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have developed one of the most daring
00:31:46
cases of food fraud in recent years
00:31:49
ludovico vakaro came across them by
00:31:52
chance their code name is Operation
00:31:55
yellow
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gold for
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[Music]
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sent for analysis by the investigators
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these bottles turned out to contain rape
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seed oil at this stage ludico viaro does
00:32:36
not yet realize the size of the traffic
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[Music]
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these are methods comparable to those
00:33:28
used against the mafia in this case it
00:33:31
was an entire clandestine organization
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made up of 34 people
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[Music]
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a perfectly structured Network which
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bypassed the Italian food surveillance
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system the Transporters imported rape
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seed oil most often from Turkey from the
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nearest Port anona usually it was out of
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dat the network leader directed the
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transformation of the rape seed oil into
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fake olive oil in the clandestine
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Workshop the resellers then took charge
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of it and traveled the roads to sell it
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to Italian Swiss and German
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restaurants some of them were renowned
00:34:47
and even visited by the German
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Chancellor or the Italian
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president for
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within the network the traffickers are
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feeling lucky counterfeiting olive oil
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is easy and makes a lot of money
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comp
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in two years the fraudsters have cashed
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in7 million
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e impunity seems to Prevail in food
00:36:50
fraud cases the criminal sanctions
00:36:53
incurred by traffickers indicted in
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these cases are not deterring enough
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[Music]
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[Music]
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it's not surprising then that Italian
00:37:26
mafas have turned their attention to
00:37:28
these new types of trafficking now
00:37:31
anti-ia brigades are discovering food
00:37:33
counterfeits among other illegal
00:37:36
Commodities such as Weapons or drugs in
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2017 during the arrest of one of the
00:37:42
most powerful street gangs in Calabria
00:37:45
Italian police officers uncovered a fake
00:37:47
olive oil made from industrial
00:37:49
lubricants that was being exported to
00:37:51
the United States
00:38:14
the mafia has infiltrated wholesale
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markets Supermarket chains and large
00:38:19
European companies how far does their
00:38:22
influence
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reach all just
00:38:47
the food processing industry and the
00:38:49
billions that it generates has an
00:38:51
irresistible attraction for traffickers
00:38:53
of all kinds we probably only know the
00:38:56
tip of the iceberg of this Hidden
00:38:59
World it is partially because more and
00:39:01
more of our food comes from other
00:39:04
continents under the effects of
00:39:06
globalization all Food Industries are
00:39:08
bringing in ever increasing amounts of
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food at increasingly competitive prices
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one food in particular is subject to
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international trafficking it is
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synonymous with health food yet it is
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one of the most counterfeited the
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control of fraudsters has increased
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since fish is no longer caught in
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coastal areas but in distant Seas
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tuna in particular has sparked the
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interest of
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frauders to meet the growing demand for
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raw tuna consumption a very specific
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Market held by 200 Seafood professionals
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has been established in Europe this fish
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is caught in the Pacific or Indian Ocean
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then quickly Frozen at -8° de its red
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meat has high value and is expensive the
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arrival of raw tuna at low prices raised
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the alarm in
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2015 a dozen manufacturers including
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French German and Italian realized that
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their business was at
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risk one of them agreed to testify
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although with his face
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hidden a professional
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these Seafood manufacturers secretly
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conducted their own investigation
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these are illegal practices from
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Indonesia Vietnam and China gorging fish
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with water in this way increases their
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weight and makes them more expensive a
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widespread fraud technique however there
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is something much more serious in the
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case of tuna
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they filmed this discovery secretly
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during a visit to a Spanish
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competitor that day they noticed the
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presence of strange Machinery through
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which the brown tuna loins were passing
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butcher are allowed to use them they are
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used to inject nitrates a preservative
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that gives the hams their brightness and
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pink color their use however is becoming
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more and more
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controversial immediately the
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manufacturers understood that their
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competitors had found a trick to turn
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the tuner red
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we replicated this chemical
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transformation in the laboratory the
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injection of nitrates will allow the
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oxidized meat to regain its color within
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a few hours
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this recolored tuner which can be
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mistaken for fresh tuner is likely to
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cause intoxication and allergic
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shock the dissident Industry Group
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driven by fear of Scandal decided to lay
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everything out on the
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table comp
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in 2016 a Spanish police search
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discovered that the whistleblowers were
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not wrong here is tuna caught in El
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Salvador and Panama the brown flesh
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indicates that they should no longer be
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eaten raw we will also find the
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injection machines and high doses of
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nitrates despite all this evidence the
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incriminated Spanish manufacturers tried
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to defend themselves
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despite this the fraud continued in
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2017 there were 454 cases of poisoning
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in Europe due to tuna spiked with
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nitrates this is a dangerous health
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hazard and the European commission had
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to react
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europol is the European crime fighting
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organization they mobilize the police
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force of 11 different countries this
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operation shut down one of the largest
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food trafficking operations in
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2018 the result was a record 131 tons of
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seized tuna
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this is one of the most important
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trafficking operations that has been
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shut down to date 79 criminals were
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arrested throughout Europe in several
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illegal workshops notably in Spain but
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also in France Italy and Malta thanks to
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the monitoring of the network the
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investigators learned that the
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quantities of nitrates used had the
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frauders complaining of severe itching
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the frauders managed to make up to 12
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million EUR in profit per
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year it is an incredibly lucrative fraud
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that has not ended with the impressive
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takedown of the network despite the
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increased controls throughout Europe
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tuna spiked with various chemicals are
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still seized on a regular basis
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these four cases are about uh product
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produced in Vietnam within the food
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fraud Network European officials are
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experiencing an increased number of
00:47:42
alerts on potential frauds year after
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year they now affect all food products
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how do you deal with such a tidal wave
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fraudsters enjoy all the facilities
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offered by a world where the free
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movement of goods is
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key throughout the supply chain the
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responsibilities that manufacturers have
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are therefore immense
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importers Traders processors wholesalers
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legally these are the guarantors of the
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authenticity of what we eat to do this
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they perform thousands of tests each
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year called self checks although it's
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impossible to know how many frauds are
00:48:44
detected this way the results of these
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self checks are kept in the dark
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only frauds dangerous to health must be
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disclosed to the authorities the others
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which are more numerous depend on the
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Goodwill of the manufacturers
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this impunity extends to the
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representatives of large distribution
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chains they too have a legal obligation
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to put food on the shelves that is what
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it claims to be however they are almost
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never prosecuted in cases of food fraud
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at the end of our journey into the heart
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of fraud we can no longer look at our
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food in the same way how many of these
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products are counterfeit without anyone
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noticing how many how many fraudsters
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are we funding with our globalized food
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consumption patterns no one is aware of
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the extent of the fraud and yet a
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widespread concern is
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spreading consumers are increasingly
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concerned about the effects of food on
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their health by targeting our food
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criminals and professional frauders
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are making us feel increasingly worried
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about what is really on our plates
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