ITALY PUSHES FOR ORIGIN RULES FOR PROCESSED TOMATOES
August 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
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THE ITALIAN government is pushing the European Commission to create a regulation forcing European Union (EU) food manufacturers using tomato paste to declare the ingredient's origin. It reported to the EU Council of Ministers that the import of "concentrate imported from China, which is of mediocre quality but very competitive in price" is damaging EU producers. The market was already oversupplied, said the paper. A problem, said Italy, was that "rules do not impose any obligation [on manufacturers] to specify the origin of ...
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