No More Smuggling Many Cured Italian Meats Coming to America

"No more stuffing your suitcases with delicacies bought in Italy, hoping the sniffer dogs at JFK or other American airports won't detect the banned-in-the-USA foodstuffs inside your luggage."

"In the U.S., they're called cured meats, the French say charcuterie and in Italy, the word for cured-pork products is salumi."

"Starting May 28, a four-decades-old ban on the import of many Italiansalumi will be lifted."

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that the Italian regions of Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto and Piedmont, and the provinces of Trento and Bolzano, are free of swine vesicular disease. Imports of pork products from those areas, says the USDA, present a low risk of introducing the disease into the U.S. The disease was first detected in the 1960s and can survive cooking and even long curing."