Criminal syndicates are infiltrating the global food supply chain, undermining the ability of consumers to trust what is on the label and what ends up on their plate. In Italy, entire sectors of the food industry are controlled by the mafia. All over the world, well-organised criminal networks work together to penetrate complex supply chains. Scams range from the intentional mislabelling of inferior products in order to pass them off as premium items, to the substitution of one food stuff for something else entirely. The profits are enormous. But what are the risks to the consumer? How can we identify food fraud? And what can be done to stop it?
In this investigation, we follow the food fraud brigades and reveal how little we know about what we’re eating.
This documentary was first released in 2021.
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30 Comments
Wait until they investigate the honey industry 😬
Don't forget they haven't found a burger yet without cowshit in it…….
#BBCResistance
interesting, smaller video lengths now?
So great that everyone does everything in "realtime" now. Before this, life was madness.
The public has demanded that olive oil contain no olive oil or olive oil by-products. The mafia were very quick to supply this unmet need. Kudos to the team.
Their Codename is "Operation Yellow Gold". Same as Putin/Trump !!!
😮😮😮😮
very interesting. bad guys around, but also some good ones trying to protecting us
Incompetent gov. inspectors, trying to tax small producers: "Look, there's a criminal activity, we have solution,but pay more for tracking every plant that grows…" That's what you get when dealing with corporations, mafia against mafia. Buy local, pay more!
I buy my olive oil directly from an amazing producer in Queen Creek Arizona, its so good!
I buy only Greek olive oil ❤️
Ужасно. При Путине в России тоже стало полно фальсификата…
The question is why did they wait until now to take a bigger action? This was known for decades…
OMG Italy bad.
I'm glad I planted my own olive trees. It may not be the best oil, but at least what I get won't be industrial lubricants.
Its not only olive oil , fake honey , fake fruits and vegetables that used to last a few days , now they last for weeks. Injected meat products , that are half water/half meat or soy added. Fake water , that they say comes from France , Fiji or the Swiss alps , its actually just filtered local tap water.
Getting coconut oil shipped it to the EU from the other side of the world, makes sense
The narrator pronounced indicted as indickted. lol
What brands can we trust???
I am looking at a bottle of Italian extra virgin olive oil at the moment promoted by a uk tv celebrity says bottled in China !!!!
why the hell would Italian olive oil be exported to China to be bottled , would love to get it properly sampled.
Eu should be more strict on authenticity. Trust the Italian mafia for quality. And we pay through the nose… for byproducts.
The consumer again getting damaged and the unscrupulous mafia getting rich. Shame.
Why Spain can not sell it itself? Why Italy has to buy from them & sell it as Italian olive oil? It`s a fraud.
Thats i got my own in Croatia if you want pure its is 100 evro litre
this is why i only go to the only true authentic italian restaurant — olive garden —
I’m from South Italy, Apulia. We do produce extra virgin olive oil, the real deal, from organic olive trees but we haven’t been able to start our company business because the people doesn’t want to pay the right price for an excellent product that you don’t find in any store of the world. The real one, just the oil, cost to us around 10 eur/liter, how am I supposed to sell it for less than that amount? I believe the right price would be around 20/25 eur/liter but people don’t understand that if you want something excellent you have to pay for it!
6:35 "after 2 years of back and forth bribe negotiations, i mean, investigations, we decided to arrest them"
If you don't taste the difference why does it matter?
Educate yourself on what REAL extra virgin olice oil tastes like.
Mafia blocked the pictures
Il progresso ..criminale…hanno i soldi 💰….si facevano falsi soldi …in passato vuoi che di questi tempi non si faccia fake olive oil …like fake news …
Was it just me who thought he had dripped some oil down his chin when he tested and had to pause the video to make sure what the sketch was ?