2024-04-03 20:41:53
TRENTO. He asks ten questions to Concast, Apt val di Non and the provincial agriculture department Giovanni Battista Maestri, Mattia’s fatherthe child who since 2017, when he was 4 years old, has been in a vegetative state after eating a cheese made with raw milk contaminated by the Escherichia coli bacterium produced by the Coredo social dairy.
The debate on the matter reignited afterwards the assignment, by the Apt Val di Non, of the “Val di Non” brand to a cheese produced by the Coredo social dairy. “Why did Concast, Apt Val di Non and the Provincial Department of Agriculture, among many other dairies in the area, choose the Social Dairy of Coredo – against which a sentence has become final which ascertained the very serious violations in terms of hygiene and food safety – to create what they defined as ‘a product of excellence’?”. It is the first of ten questions presented in a press conference at the Accademia hotel in Trento by Giovanni Battista Maestri.
“The brand – Maestri specified – must be withdrawn only by ed exclusively to the Coredo dairy, not to the other dairies that performed well“. Mattia’s father reiterated that his is not “a battle just for the logo”. “We are helping other children. I couldn’t save my Mattia, I couldn’t do it, but I guarantee you that my Mattia saved other children. AND until the ‘Val di Non’ brand is removed I will continue. Why the life of a child was disrespected“he said, specifying that two other cheeses produced by the same dairy and contaminated by Escherichia coli were recalled from sale in 2017 and 2022.
“In France, raw milk cheeses are labeled and cannot be given to children“, added Maestri, who in the ten questions also asks whether Concast is “in favor of labeling suitable to inform the consumer of these risks, explicitly advising against the use of the same products for feeding children and other vulnerable subjects”.
Giovanni Battista Maestri also announced that its lawyers “are already working to proceed at a criminal and civil level both for the brand and for the advertising”. The promotional image in question was released on October 1, 2021 by Trentingrana. Only a few days earlier, on 28 September 2021, the investigating judge, at the request of the public prosecutor, had accepted Giovanni Battista Maestri’s opposition to the request to dismiss the trial against the Coredo social dairy.
2024-04-03 20:41:53