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 that criminal activity has stopped the life of my daughter and that of my family devastated.
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 carni, non bloccando il processo di putrefazione, ma mantenendo il colore rosso, favoriscono l’ inganno dei consumatori , procurando ai rivenditori di carne profitti più cospicui ( come lo stesso macellaio, già condannato in primo grado, ha confermato al giudice).
Attualmente mia figlia è in stato vegetativo permanente e si trova a casa assistita da me e da mia moglie (1) .
ILLEGALITA’
Macellai senza scrupoli tengono in vita la carne con nitrati e solfiti (assolutamente proibiti dalla legge): i primi abbattono la flora batterica, i secondi mantengono il colore.
Così carne tritata, hamburger e salsicce, bombe sul 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. Chemical examination of the butcher chopped, administered as the sole food for animals, there was a sulfite ion concentration equal to 2308 mg / kg ... ... "(From the journal" Progress in Veterinary FNOVI Torino)
My daughter is been addressed by the dishonest butcher of 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, in recent years I have done my duty as a citizen calling through a lettera aperta ai cittadini e alle autorità, il prefetto e il sindaco di Catania a predisporre più controlli per la tutela della salute della gente, inoltre ho avvisato moltissimi studenti e lavoratori siciliani dei pericoli che corrono per la salute in una città dove, in molti ambienti, la legalità viene considerata un optional. Il messaggio è stato recepito? La mia lotta di civiltà è stata utile per la città di Catania?
Paradossalmente, chi ha fatto notare al grande pubblico che la salute è a rischio è stato, nel settembre del 2009, un turista tedesco che ha denunciato il degrado di un mercato all’aperto di Catania.Un mercato che non si trova in un luogo isolato di Catania ma vicino al Municipio the city. 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 of 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, bullying of many motorists, pedestrians inability to use the sidewalks because they are 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 is it possible that the classes and the most influential authorities in 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, time processes are very long, no one 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 is 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 sulphites nelle carni fresche e nelle preparazioni di carne. Tuttavia, queste ultime, e in particolare le carni macinate, sono tuttora oggetto di frodi compiute attraverso l’aggiunta di solfiti allo scopo di migliorarne alcune caratteristiche organolettiche. È risaputo, infatti, che i solfiti aggiunti sono in grado di mantenere il colore rosso intenso delle carni fresche, inibendo il processo di ossidazione della mioglobina a metamioglobina, ovvero di ripristinarlo rapidamente nelle carni diventate scure in seguito all’esposizione all’aria.
La sintomatologia clinica da esposizione alimentare ai solfiti è quanto mai varia e correlata, in larga misura, alla dose assunta con gli alimenti. Le manifestazioni meno gravi comprendono rinite, eritemi cutanei, congiuntivite, nausea e sintomi da irritazione gastrointestinale, mentre nei casi più gravi si possono manifestare orticaria generalizzata, broncospasmo, edema della glottide, ipotensione e talora shock anafilattico che può insorgere a breve distanza dall’ingestione del pasto.”
(3)Un giornale locale, alla notizia che ispettori di Bruxelles erano a Catania per controllare se la salute dei cittadini era tutelata, così scriveva:”Le autorità catanesi non hanno provato vergogna quando un’istituzione posizionata a migliaia di chilometri di distanza ha ricordato loro di applicare leggi e regole che altrove sono l’essenza del vivere civile? E, in generale, l’intera città Catania does not feel "at least" the inconvenience of being singled out as a community where the living is without dignity and an act of 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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