Casal Velino, “counterfeit” oil: scams are multiplying

Olive oil scams, the Codacons Cilento to prevent scams which, ever more numerous, occur at multiple levels, tarnishing the quality of one of the typical Cilento products. In fact, for some time now, reports of “fake oil”: the decline in olive production in the Cilento area and the consequent increase in the prices of the product “excites” scammers who, more and more often, pass off a product as Cilento oil which, instead, is made elsewhere and with different raw materials. «Olive oil has always been one of the main products of Cilento appreciated in Italy and abroad. Product that is sold to Italian and foreign tourists and visitors in this period. An important economic impact for agricultural companies and for many producing families in Cilento. Oil has always been one of the products in which the worst scams against consumers have been recorded», highlights the lawyer Bartolomeo Lanzarapresident of Codacons Cilento.

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