fines and seizures –

Expired fish and incorrectly traced food: fines and large-scale seizures in Cortina’s VIP restaurants. The military personnel of the Venice Coast Guard, coordinated by the Veneto Fishing Area Control Center, have seized 1,400 kg of expired, untraced, or unlabeled fish and food products in three renowned restaurants in Cortina d’Ampezzo. The Coast Guard operators, with the staff of the food hygiene service of the Ulss 1 Dolomiti Health Authority, seized a large quantity of sea bass, amberjack, cuttlefish, squid, red shrimp, octopus, salmon, and other non-fish food products that were stored in the freezers of the kitchens of the VIP restaurants.

All the products were found to lack the minimum mandatory traceability information at each stage of marketing and with a minimum or expiry date already exceeded. The surveillance activity in the Cortina area led to the imposition of 8 administrative sanctions for a total of 22,000 euros.