OPEN LETTER
Citizens of Catania Catania
Authorities
ILLEGALITY ', SILENCE, OMERTA', CATANIA:
These are the words that come to mind today to four years of the event, which interrupted the criminal life of my daughter devastated and that of my family.
My daughter Sara, a student of Political Science at Catania,
7 February 2006
eats a meatball, which he was allergic to sulfites and falls into a coma following an anaphylactic shock. The meat was purchased in a butcher's shop in a street in the outdoor market near to the Main street.
Sulfites in meat, non-blocking progress of putrefaction, but keeping the color red, favor the 'deception of consumers, retailers and gives them substantial profits meat (as the butcher, convicted at first instance, confirmed to the court).
Currently my daughter is in a permanent vegetative state and is assisted at home by myself and my wife (1).
ILLEGALITY '
Butchers unscrupulous keep alive the meat with nitrates and sulphites (absolutely prohibited by law): The first break down the bacterial flora, the latter retain their color. So
mince, burgers and sausages, bombs on our gastrointestinal system and circulatory system, may last for days, unnoticed, on the counter sales.
imagine the heat in an outdoor market, to mask the decay of the ground meat with the entire surface exposed to air, sulfites must be added those in the hands of unscrupulous butchers (2).
Sulfites in meat are harmful not only to individuals but also to animals.
E 'meaningful story of sulfites in food poisoning from a private kennel in the province of Palermo. "Three individuals, a total of 27, died after expressing a set of symptoms like gastrointestinal and nervous systems. An examination of the chemical chopped Butcher, administered as the sole food for animals, there was a sulfite ion concentration equal to 2308 mg / kg ... ... "(From the journal" Advances in veterinary FNOVI Torino)
My daughter was treated at the butcher's dishonest Catania "worst" of how the dogs were treated in Palermo:
the concentration was equal to 10,700 mg / kg, a lethal quantity because the allergic reaction triggered by concentrations of 10 mg / kg (1070 times the critical value! )
SILENCE and OMERTA '
I, over the years I have done my duty as a citizen calling, through an open letter to the citizens and authorities, the prefect and the mayor of Catania to provide more controls to protect people's health, I also advised many students and workers of the dangers to Sicily to health in a city where, in many circles, the law is considered optional. The message has got through? My struggle for civilization is helpful for the city of Catania?
Paradoxically, who pointed out to the public health is at risk was in September 2009, a German tourist who complained about the deterioration of an open-air market Catania.Un market that is not in a isolated area of \u200b\u200bCatania, but near the Town Hall. Impossible not to notice (3).
I still wonder
- Fines traders do not come to take the individual USL or other supervisory bodies of public health measures to close the historic open-air markets, which have great importance for folklore Catania?
-To avoid alarmism that may break social balance and disrupt habits of large segments of the population and because thousands and thousands of votes of the families of traders in these markets are a bit too tempting to let it get away?
Everything at the expense of public health.! Squalor that ..!
CATANIA
The idea that I have made the city Catania during the period when my daughter was in intensive care, from 7 February to 21 April 2006, is a city of the Far West: messy and crazy traffic, noise pollution, the arrogance of many motorists, impossible for pedestrians to use because of the platform occupied by car or stalls, work stops, illegal stalls tolerated by the vigilant and the highest political authorities of the city, municipal coffers empty neighborhoods in the dark. A degradation of the third world. A deep decay, a lack of ethical rules and a lifestyle accustomed and resigned, often adjacent to the world of illegality. I have asked myself many times: how can the most influential classes and authorities, all these years have not been able to avoid the loss of quality of life in Catania?
My daughter unconscious in its innocence, in this environment, in this context of social degradation, in Catania, stopped forever perky its vitality and is condemned to a bleak stillness.
And some butchers Catania still continue with impunity to put harmful substances into meatballs and sausages?
On the other hand, if profits increase with the introduction of sulphites and fines do not come, why give up a few dozen more €? This is the reasoning that led to make the butchers dishonest, because even if delinquent, pay little.
But in other sectors as food adulteration, come up and are not punished so severely by the law and decided, just read the newspapers! For example, in the year 2008 in Italy, in the dossier on the criminal convictions have become final, against companies convicted of fraud and adulteration, there are 81 sentences with fines ranging between 500 and 3000 €. 81! throughout Italy ..?!
Pretty much the state is sleeved with those who jeopardize people's health: impunity is basically guaranteed, he negotiates the penalty, the pardon may vary, times are very long process, no ends up in jail and mercy bestows automatic discounts to those who do not make good any damage.
This must change: who endangers the health must be treated as a drug dealer, must be condemned without reduction of sentences! Their names must be advertised and is necessary to take a position from industry or other serious and honest dealers to isolate the criminals, to ensure their reliability and health of citizens! Trade associations should isolate the black sheep and put them in a position to do more damage. It would be their duty, and consumers appreciate and build confidence in them.
Catania remains a beautiful city with great people and bands of intellectuals of the first order, but also a city (dangerous) where life is terrible because of the lack of moral and ethical values.
We can not continue to be silent and turn away to avoid seeing.
Luciano Di Natale
Notes (1) In Sicily, due to bad politics, often colluding with the dishonesty, lack of facilities for the reception of persons in a vegetative state.
(2) The journal "Advances in veterinary FNOVI Torino"
"The law categorically excludes the administration of sulfites in fresh meat, preparations of meat. However, the latter, particularly minced meat, are still subject to fraud committed by the addition of sulphites in order to improve some characteristics. It is well known fact that the sulphites added are able to keep the deep red color of fresh meat, inhibiting the oxidation of myoglobin to metmyoglobin, or to restore it quickly in the meat becomes dark upon exposure to air.
The clinical symptoms of dietary exposure to sulphites is very diverse and related to a large extent, the dose taken with food. The less severe manifestations include rhinitis, skin rashes, conjunctivitis, nausea and symptoms of gastrointestinal irritation, and in severe cases may experience generalized urticaria, bronchospasm, edema of the glottis, hypotension and sometimes anaphylactic shock that can occur a short distance from the ingestion of a meal. "
(3) A local newspaper, the news that inspectors from Brussels to Catania had to check if public health was protected, he wrote: "The authorities have not established Catania shame when an institution located thousands of miles away reminded them to apply their laws and rules that elsewhere are the essence of civilized life? And in general, the entire city of Catania does not feel "at least" the discomfort of being singled out as a community where living is an act without dignity and pure contempt for the law? E 'need a renaissance of ethics and morality of the entire community so that the indolence and apathy Catania way to make human society. Ask yourself, dear citizens of Catania bad as ever you live in your city. The reason is nell'affievolimento of those moral and ethical values \u200b\u200bthat serve as the basis for daily living. This weakening has started a process of dramatic spread of the culture of lawlessness. "
Citizens of Catania Catania
Authorities
ILLEGALITY ', SILENCE, OMERTA', CATANIA:
These are the words that come to mind today to four years of the event, which interrupted the criminal life of my daughter devastated and that of my family.
My daughter Sara, a student of Political Science at Catania,
7 February 2006
eats a meatball, which he was allergic to sulfites and falls into a coma following an anaphylactic shock. The meat was purchased in a butcher's shop in a street in the outdoor market near to the Main street.
Sulfites in meat, non-blocking progress of putrefaction, but keeping the color red, favor the 'deception of consumers, retailers and gives them substantial profits meat (as the butcher, convicted at first instance, confirmed to the court).
Currently my daughter is in a permanent vegetative state and is assisted at home by myself and my wife (1).
ILLEGALITY '
Butchers unscrupulous keep alive the meat with nitrates and sulphites (absolutely prohibited by law): The first break down the bacterial flora, the latter retain their color. So
mince, burgers and sausages, bombs on our gastrointestinal system and circulatory system, may last for days, unnoticed, on the counter sales.
imagine the heat in an outdoor market, to mask the decay of the ground meat with the entire surface exposed to air, sulfites must be added those in the hands of unscrupulous butchers (2).
Sulfites in meat are harmful not only to individuals but also to animals.
E 'meaningful story of sulfites in food poisoning from a private kennel in the province of Palermo. "Three individuals, a total of 27, died after expressing a set of symptoms like gastrointestinal and nervous systems. An examination of the chemical chopped Butcher, administered as the sole food for animals, there was a sulfite ion concentration equal to 2308 mg / kg ... ... "(From the journal" Advances in veterinary FNOVI Torino)
My daughter was treated at the butcher's dishonest Catania "worst" of how the dogs were treated in Palermo:
the concentration was equal to 10,700 mg / kg, a lethal quantity because the allergic reaction triggered by concentrations of 10 mg / kg (1070 times the critical value! )
SILENCE and OMERTA '
I, over the years I have done my duty as a citizen calling, through an open letter to the citizens and authorities, the prefect and the mayor of Catania to provide more controls to protect people's health, I also advised many students and workers of the dangers to Sicily to health in a city where, in many circles, the law is considered optional. The message has got through? My struggle for civilization is helpful for the city of Catania?
Paradoxically, who pointed out to the public health is at risk was in September 2009, a German tourist who complained about the deterioration of an open-air market Catania.Un market that is not in a isolated area of \u200b\u200bCatania, but near the Town Hall. Impossible not to notice (3).
I still wonder
- Fines traders do not come to take the individual USL or other supervisory bodies of public health measures to close the historic open-air markets, which have great importance for folklore Catania?
-To avoid alarmism that may break social balance and disrupt habits of large segments of the population and because thousands and thousands of votes of the families of traders in these markets are a bit too tempting to let it get away?
Everything at the expense of public health.! Squalor that ..!
CATANIA
The idea that I have made the city Catania during the period when my daughter was in intensive care, from 7 February to 21 April 2006, is a city of the Far West: messy and crazy traffic, noise pollution, the arrogance of many motorists, impossible for pedestrians to use because of the platform occupied by car or stalls, work stops, illegal stalls tolerated by the vigilant and the highest political authorities of the city, municipal coffers empty neighborhoods in the dark. A degradation of the third world. A deep decay, a lack of ethical rules and a lifestyle accustomed and resigned, often adjacent to the world of illegality. I have asked myself many times: how can the most influential classes and authorities, all these years have not been able to avoid the loss of quality of life in Catania?
My daughter unconscious in its innocence, in this environment, in this context of social degradation, in Catania, stopped forever perky its vitality and is condemned to a bleak stillness.
And some butchers Catania still continue with impunity to put harmful substances into meatballs and sausages?
On the other hand, if profits increase with the introduction of sulphites and fines do not come, why give up a few dozen more €? This is the reasoning that led to make the butchers dishonest, because even if delinquent, pay little.
But in other sectors as food adulteration, come up and are not punished so severely by the law and decided, just read the newspapers! For example, in the year 2008 in Italy, in the dossier on the criminal convictions have become final, against companies convicted of fraud and adulteration, there are 81 sentences with fines ranging between 500 and 3000 €. 81! throughout Italy ..?!
Pretty much the state is sleeved with those who jeopardize people's health: impunity is basically guaranteed, he negotiates the penalty, the pardon may vary, times are very long process, no ends up in jail and mercy bestows automatic discounts to those who do not make good any damage.
This must change: who endangers the health must be treated as a drug dealer, must be condemned without reduction of sentences! Their names must be advertised and is necessary to take a position from industry or other serious and honest dealers to isolate the criminals, to ensure their reliability and health of citizens! Trade associations should isolate the black sheep and put them in a position to do more damage. It would be their duty, and consumers appreciate and build confidence in them.
Catania remains a beautiful city with great people and bands of intellectuals of the first order, but also a city (dangerous) where life is terrible because of the lack of moral and ethical values.
We can not continue to be silent and turn away to avoid seeing.
Luciano Di Natale
Notes (1) In Sicily, due to bad politics, often colluding with the dishonesty, lack of facilities for the reception of persons in a vegetative state.
(2) The journal "Advances in veterinary FNOVI Torino"
"The law categorically excludes the administration of sulfites in fresh meat, preparations of meat. However, the latter, particularly minced meat, are still subject to fraud committed by the addition of sulphites in order to improve some characteristics. It is well known fact that the sulphites added are able to keep the deep red color of fresh meat, inhibiting the oxidation of myoglobin to metmyoglobin, or to restore it quickly in the meat becomes dark upon exposure to air.
The clinical symptoms of dietary exposure to sulphites is very diverse and related to a large extent, the dose taken with food. The less severe manifestations include rhinitis, skin rashes, conjunctivitis, nausea and symptoms of gastrointestinal irritation, and in severe cases may experience generalized urticaria, bronchospasm, edema of the glottis, hypotension and sometimes anaphylactic shock that can occur a short distance from the ingestion of a meal. "
(3) A local newspaper, the news that inspectors from Brussels to Catania had to check if public health was protected, he wrote: "The authorities have not established Catania shame when an institution located thousands of miles away reminded them to apply their laws and rules that elsewhere are the essence of civilized life? And in general, the entire city of Catania does not feel "at least" the discomfort of being singled out as a community where living is an act without dignity and pure contempt for the law? E 'need a renaissance of ethics and morality of the entire community so that the indolence and apathy Catania way to make human society. Ask yourself, dear citizens of Catania bad as ever you live in your city. The reason is nell'affievolimento of those moral and ethical values \u200b\u200bthat serve as the basis for daily living. This weakening has started a process of dramatic spread of the culture of lawlessness. "
Luciano Di Natale
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