date:Jul 01, 2015
counterfeit red wine that were being repackaged as products of Tuscany's Brunello di Montalcino. An estimated 160,000 litres of fake wine that would have earned the producers around 5m ($5.59m) was seized in the scandal.
The county's food fraud squad NAS is also said to have seized fraudulent meat worth 143.7m last year.
Thelocal.it reported that the country raises around eight million pigs annually, out of which 70% are used to produce meat products that come with EU quality. The production