For Alessandro Utini , president of the Parma Ham Consortium , Anuga is an unmissable opportunity to meet industry professionals: "As always, our presence is aimed at offering our producers a space to meet and exchange ideas with their stakeholders. Within the framework of this leading event for food and beverage, we expect to be able to establish a fruitful dialogue with partners and visitors, but also with other production companies that face the same critical issues as us, to share visions and operational proposals, especially in relation to the issues that currently govern our daily lives.
Among these is undoubtedly the US tariffs , which risk significantly impacting trade: trade with the United States, our primary export market, capable of absorbing a third of the Parma Hams that leave Italy.
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Among the themes the Consortium will bring to Anuga is undoubtedly its commitment to the environment, confirmed by its recently completed ecological transition project. "Together with the Polytechnic University of Milan, Enersem, and CSQA ," says Alessandro Utini, "we have calculated the environmental footprint of the Parma Ham sector , activated the Made Green in Italy national certification scheme for our product, and developed software available to our producers to help them optimize their sustainability performance.
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Source: DM – Modern Distribution