Coldiretti has drafted the new 2017 dossier for the most dangerous foods in the world, or the most risky food for our health due to the contaminants they contain. It ranges from fish from Spain to dried figs and pistachios of Turkey (see Coldiretti’s list of the most contaminated foods).

Many of these products are imported into Italy, so beware of the places where you come from the foods you bring to the table (here’s how to properly read the labels). Coldiretti points out that there are 2,925 alarms shot in the European Union. The black flag belongs to Turkey with 276 products at risk, that is, non-compliant, following China (256), India (194), United States (176) and Spain (171). Also avoid the chicken of Poland or the Netherlands and the pistachios of Iran. In the incriminated foods, amounts of heavy metals or aflatoxins were found in excess of allowed limits or salmonella and other microbiological contaminations.

In 2016, Italy exported 167 million pounds of fish from Spain, nearly 2 million pounds of pistachios, 3 million dried figs and 25.6 million pounds of hazelnuts from Turkey: all foods that fall into the food classification risk for our well-being.

The positive figure is that Italian agriculture is the first in the world food security with the smallest number of agro-food products with irregular chemical residues. In our country the use of GMOs is banned and the number of organic farms is high.

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