Caselli, "The reform of food crimes is still blocked"

"The current legislation is ineffective and the framework of sanctions is very weak. It is disorderly due to the stratification of the sources and is old and obsolete. In addition to not curbing the crime, it allows a criminal attitude". Thus began the intervention of Gian Carlo Caselli in the panel dedicated to food crimes at the fourth edition of the International Festival of Food Journalism. The President of the Scientific Committee on Crime in Agriculture and the Agri-food System goes on to state that it is necessary to update a regulatory system distributed between the Criminal Code, the 283 special law of the 62 and European provisions. "In the past legislature, Minister Orlando had set up the commission by calling me to chair it along with magistrates, law enforcement, professors and lawyers who worked on the 49 project with the minister in September, delivering articles to 2015. The project was never approved because brought to the Council of Ministers the day after the dissolution of the government. Today we should start again. Some parliamentarians have taken up the bill: we hope that this time it will be achievable ".

To Maurizio Tropeano of La Stampa, who asks him why this law is so difficult to write and who are the subjects that block it, Caselli replies that there are many resistances. "Some advocate a model of development geared to the common good; others, instead, favor corporate resistance. If a valid reform were delayed, consumers would be the ones to pay the costs. Those who do not want the law maintain that too many rules impede free circulation. the economy actually favors the greed for unscrupulous earnings.The most opposed norms are those that are placed in the trial, which aims to facilitate the truth.It is necessary to expand telephone interceptions, even in the case of imports, exports , preparation, production, distribution or sale of food unsafe for health.It takes a new discipline for surprise sampling and sampling, and more incisive technical exams such as DNA examination.With this assessment counterfeits would be more identifiable and the protected consumer ".