Police seize 1,000 hams with fake trademarks

Thursday, 28 February 2008

Via: USATODAY.com ROME (AP) — Italian police have confiscated about 1,000 hams because the meat was branded with fake Parma prosciutto trademarks, authorities said Wednesday. "The prosciuttos aren't harmful to health, only a connoisseur would know they weren't the real thing," said Umberto Santone, the Carabinieri commander of the anti-fraud unit in Padua, northern Italy, which was involved in the crackdown. (Read more...)

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