EU Arrests Organized Crime Group Selling “Organic” Food Produced with Decomposed Apples

Eurojust, with Italian and Serbian national authorities, has arrested nine suspects allegedly perpetrating a “transnational large-scale fraud in the production and trade of allegedly organic food and beverages from rotten apples.” The apples were apparently used to create juice, jams and other canned food products adulterated with “mycotoxins and other toxic chemical substances, unsuitable for human consumption and dangerous for public health.” The products were “refined with water and sugars, and falsely labelled and promoted as organic products of European origin.”