Sino-Italian food safety forum targets fakes

Enhancing cooperation with China on food safety is crucial to defend "Made in Italy" products on the global market, according to Italian Agriculture Minister Maurizio Martina.

"It is crucial for Italy to cooperate more and more with China at institutional level," Martina says.

"More specifically, we need to strengthen all areas of legislative convergence, in terms of protection and promotion of our (agribusiness) productions, and on some specific plant-health and technical-commercial issues that have to be managed together," he adds.