The olive oil should be extra virgin from the grocery store, we return in the future, probably for the first time into the kitchen shelf. Is to cheap, with under five euros for a three quarter of a Liter. Nine euros per half-Liter, they can be expected to at least know of the expert in the new consumer film "Fake Food – the Tricks of The Lebensmittelfälscher", to see ZDFinfo on Wednesday, 20. June, at 20.15 clock (and on ZDF at 22. July, at 19.25). – In the food market is fake, what holds the stuff. And not, for example, the soups, the glued cooking ham, and the turbo-ripened Salami in this regard, the market leader, but the olive oil, the wine and the honey, at least with regard to the sales volume.
The ZDFinfo-documentary reveals with laboratory experiments, and statements of investigators relentlessly: It is cross-border adulterated, stretched, diluted, and the Europe-wide investigators are lagging behind rather helpless.
Adulterated olive oil, wine and honey are exported in large quantities, particularly like. "In the world of the counterfeiters, everything is international", the Belgian Interpol investigator Chris vansteenkiste explains in the Film by Anja Utfeld and admonished to be "Forces bündeln" and "More Zusammenhalten". But what are you gonna do, when the wine – and olive oil-contaminating feed with their lucrative business chemists at the Lab are always a step ahead, just like with drug abuse?
Add to that: Self-fine tongues tastes the from low-quality waste oils (Lampante virgin olive oil), hazelnut or safflower oil together brewed "hochwertige" Olive oil is very good. "You realize it nicht", one, take every Morning half a spoonful of olive oil says, while others grab the gechmack quiz full mark and some of the least consider the quality of Oil as particularly tasteful. The analysis professionals with the fine tongue do the same to you, and find among all the minimum of the value of a good Oil is by no means.
The investigative documentary makes it clear: Because olive oil is easy to forge, it – Italy for example – is the false Declaration particularly like used. Eight million euros in profits earned, across the border, slightly inside. That has recently seized 150,000 litres, and also because chlorofyll-dyed sunflower oil is easy to prove, there’s a small consolation. Long supply chains, from the farmer to the bottler to the supermarket to get the food police is difficult and there is a lack of inspectors.
Adulteration with wine: the Mafia in the game?
Even the wine is watered down and across borders, flavored, and Glycerin is added. German wine growers and wineries are not there except. A winemakers from the Rhine was occupied with a professional ban of five years and 200,000 Euro fine, can report the Bad Kreuznach public Prosecutor Bernhard man. However, he gives cases to colleagues, "if the counterfeiters abroad sitzen". After all, in a case of 11,000 bottles of alleged Antinori-wine – hundreds of euros per bottle were exposed – as the cheaper booze. The Mafia is supposed to be in the game.
In this country the varieties are mixed inadmissible and wine brands that are counterfeited, valued annually, to the eleven million bottles. As it says in the article, lead a shortage of staff " that products are not adequately controlled: ;The wine industry in Germany loses annually about 60 million euros in sales."
In the honey spoof, in turn, in Germany the import business from Mexico to the Ukraine, the Chinese are according to the strict EU directives the leader. With sugar syrup made from rice, Corn, and wheat, bee honey is stretched and, above all, far harvested before it is ripe. The EU insists that the honey must be alone of bees, and the until full maturity.
The pressure on the world market by China, where the apiaries boilers with Steel, such as Breweries look to grow. To import restrictions, is already thought, but that again is a wide field for lawyers and diplomats. New regulations will take at least years. Meanwhile, we are back to the less expensive, supposedly "hochwertigen" Olive oil and sugar sweetened honey grab. A consolation, how beautiful, gives us the Interpol man Vansteenkist, but on the way: "Criminals will always find new Methoden", so, he says. "But we don’t stop to chase you."