Italy Enacts Law 75/2026 Creating Criminal Offense for Food Fraud, Tying Fines to Company Revenue
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Italy has enacted Law 75/2026, a new food fraud law that creates a specific criminal offense for food fraud and changes how fines are calculated by tying many penalties to a company's turnover rather than fixed amounts. The law targets counterfeiting, false claims, and deceptive labeling across the food chain, aiming to make sanctions more effective against companies that mislead consumers about product contents, origin, and labeling.
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· 3 pulledItaly has put a new food fraud law into force that sharply raises the stakes for companies accused of misleading consumers about what is in their products, where they come from and how they are labeled.
The measure, Law 75/2026, took effect in recent hours and creates a specific criminal offense for food fraud.
Officials say the goal is to make sanctions more effective against counterfeiting, false claims and deceptive labeling across the food chain.
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