Choose your tomatoes Wisely
Brief Summary:
8/10/10 Chinese tomatoes are fraudulently re-labeled “Made in Italy.”
8/30/10 Expired tomatoes “of suspect origin” and foreign language labeling are
fraudulently re-labeled in Italian with “new” expiration dates. Storage
is “unsuitable to guarantee wholesomeness.”
8/30/10 Separate cannery owner charged with selling fake/spoiled foods. 1,200
tons of peeled tomatoes are seized, including 17 tons in bubbling cans.
9/25/10 400 thousand cans of tomatoes seized are illegally labeled with “false
production method and place of origin declarations” and stored in poor
sanitation and hygiene.
10/18/10 One million cans fraudulently labeled “Made in Italy” are seized
because they are actually Re-Manufactured from Chinese tomato paste.
10/28/10 385 tons of fake “San Marzano” tomatocs going to the US seized.
Invoices show an even larger quantity of fake “San Marzano” tomatoes
was recently shipped to other foreign buyers.
11/19/10 1,420 tons of fake “San Marzano DOP” tomatoes and fake “Organic
San Marzano” tomatoes going to the US are seized. Fake labels included
copies of legitimate DOP registration numbers.
11/25/10 167,520 cans of fake “San Marzano DOP” tomatoes and fake
“Organic” tomatoes going to the US are seized.
12/10/10 14,000 cans of canned peeled tomatoes in a Scafati area warehouse are
seized for being fraudulently labeled with the “San Marzano DOP”
emblem.
12/10/10 Five shipping containers of tomatoes (26,460 cans) going to the US are
seized for being fraudulently labeled with the “San Marzano DOP”
emblem
