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After the mid‑July inspections The multi‑agency food‑safety campaign that began in July 2024 with inspections in Paternò, Seregno, Ostia, Rome, Soverato and other locations continued into 2026. In mid‑July 2026, police and regional health officials shut down a an unlicensed bakery in Paternò Paternò, seizing about 20 kg of bread, and sealed a grocery in Seregno, and the coordinated July 29 raids in Pordenone and Sirmione that resulted in restaurant suspensions, seizures of hashish Seregno for serious hygiene breaches, missing Italian‑language labels and absent price displays; owners face fines exceeding €118,000, Italian police, Carabinieri of up to €6,000 and health officials expanded the campaign €5,000 respectively. In early August 2026, coordinated raids on July 30. the Adriatic and Tuscan coasts targeted further illegal food operations. In Ostia, a minimarket at Lido Centro was closed after Grottammare (Marche), the Guardia di Finanza, labor inspectors found rodent droppings, insect larvae and expired products on INPS halted an unpermitted bakery and pastry lab that supplied bars and tourist venues along the shelves. A pub in coast. On the Casalotti district island of Rome was also shut for rat excrement in its kitchen, and a meat‑shop received an administrative fine for unsanitary conditions. In Soverato, Calabria, Elba, the Carabinieri’s anti‑fraud Coast Guard and regional health unit seized 521 technicians closed a seaside restaurant in Capoliveri after seizing roughly 100 kg of meat, fish, dairy fish and other items stored in products lacking traceability, imposing a malfunctioning refrigerator and contaminated by waste, suspending the supermarket’s meat department €4,000 administrative fine and referring the owner to ordering corrective measures. These actions reinforce the judiciary. Similar inspections at beach stalls on Viale Kennedy in Catania uncovered five kilograms of untraceable animal food, a black‑market worker sustained effort by police, Carabinieri, health services and structural violations, leading to fines of about €24,000. Across the operations, other authorities imposed additional fines, ordered suspensions of meat departments, detained illegal workers and filed criminal complaints, underscoring a sustained, multi‑agency effort to enforce hygiene standards standards, suspend non‑compliant food businesses, levy fines and protect public health throughout pursue criminal complaints across Italy.