Inside Europe: Controversial new labelling rules in Italy
Politics
Megan Williams
July 28, 2017
The Italian government has announced a controversial new decree that requires all pasta and rice packages sold in Italy to be labelled with the country of origin of the product inside. The agriculture ministry says the move to protect Italian farmers should be adopted by the entire EU. But as Megan Williams reports, foreign wheat and rice producers, local millers and pasta producers are worried.