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Titolo: cremonini in prima pagina su WSJ Europe

la vicenda Cremonini e mucca pazza è raccontata in prima pagina sul Wall
Street Journal Europe..e non è certamente positiva per il titolo..
quale può essere un suo minimo?

 ha scritto nel messaggio
news:Fieb6.624$ew1....@news.infostrada.it...
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nemmeno io ci voglio entrare, ma lo seguo con curiositą..

 quale può essere un suo minimo?
puoi postare l'articolo?
enrico

 wrote:
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Cremonini Draws Criminal Inquiry
For False Claims About Mad-Cow
By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV 
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
ROME -- Italian magistrates have opened a criminal inquiry into acts by
Cremonini SpA's executives, saying the nation's biggest meat company
wrongly claimed in November newspaper advertisements that an international
health agency had "officially declared [Italy] exempt" from mad-cow
disease.
Turin magistrate Raffaele Guariniello said the executives are suspected of
"fraud in commerce" because of the ad campaign, which cited a supposed
declaration by the Office International des Epizooties, a Paris agency that
unites 155 countries and serves as a clearinghouse for information on
animal diseases world-wide. "We have contacted the presidency of the OIE,
and the organization told us that it made no such declaration," Mr.
Guariniello said.
Cremonini was propelled to the center of Italy's mad-cow scare when the
nation's first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) -- a
brain-wasting disease believed to be linked to a human ailment that has
taken 83 lives in Britain, two in France and one in Ireland -- was found in
a cow at the company's slaughterhouse this month. The publicly traded
company supplies meat to dozens of firms, including McDonald's Corp. The
slaughterhouse in question doesn't supply McDonald's, and the restaurant
company has said it is confident its meat is safe. Cremonini shares, which
fell 3% Monday to 1.75 euros ($1.64) in Milan, have declined sharply since
BSE fears spread beyond Britain last fall.
A Cremonini spokesman said the company was justified in citing OIE in the
ads because at the time the agency's official Web site, which among other
data compiles BSE statistics world-wide, listed no cases of the disease for
Italy since 1994. He said Cremonini learned about possible fraud charges
only from news reports and has not received any official notification from
Mr. Guariniello's office.
Gary Sutherland, an official of OIE, said the agency has never declared
Italy to be "disease-free" on the BSE front. OIE uses that label for other
cattle ailments, such as hoof-and-mouth disease, in nations that implement
established screening and supervision procedures, he said, but it does not
normally declare countries to be free from BSE.
In compiling statistics for its Web site OIE relies on national
governments, Mr. Sutherland said, and the data for Italy merely suggested
that its government had reported no official cases of mad-cow disease at
the time. "Saying that a country has no reported cases of BSE is an
altogether different thing from saying that it's free of the disease," he
said. The head of OIE's information and international trade department, Dr.
T. Chillaud, agreed, saying "the OIE has taken no decision on the BSE
status of Italy."
According to Mr. Guariniello, the fraud charges, if proved, could lead to a
jail term of up to two years and a fine of up to four million lire ($1,930)
for each of Cremonini's top executives. Under Italian law, corporate
officials are personally responsible for their company's actions.
Apart from Cremonini, Mr. Guariniello said, he is investigating about 10
Italian animal-feed manufacturers suspected of using ground-up remains of
dead cattle, a banned material thought to be the main source of
transmitting BSE to healthy animals.
Separately, German prosecutors said Monday they are looking into whether
veterinarians in Bavaria illegally helped supply farmers in Austria and
Germany with hormones, antibiotics and vaccines that can be used to fatten
pigs, as the newsweekly Der Spiegel reported. Some experts have warned that
people eating such pork over long periods could develop cancer or become
immune to antibiotics. The revelations come just as Germany strains to
regain public trust after more than a dozen cases of BSE have turned up in
herds officials once considered safe.
Used with permission from The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition,
http://wsj.com
. Copyright 2001 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights
reserved.

 Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
grazie
sarebbe bello sapere cosa pensa di fare la Consob, visto che il venerdě
antecedente la diffusione della notizia cremonini crollava
"inspiegabilmente" con volumi insolitamente sostenuti.
enrico