Where our food comes from

You cannot always believe what is written on the can. Any British shopper browsing Asda’s supermarket shelves for a touch of the Mediterranean culinary lifestyle might have been forgiven for thinking that the labels on the cans of an own-brand tomato puree meant what they said. After all, they read: “Produced in Italy”.

But that was not to be quite the whole story, thanks to the often opaque world of EU consumer law. When police in Angri, southern Italy, raided Asda’s supplier, they found the tomato puree had been imported from China.

Read more….

http://irpi.eu/pulp-fiction-asdas-made-in-italy-tomato-puree-hails-from-china/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/27/asda-italy-tomato-puree-china

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