Can lunchmeat clear Italian Customs?

You will find lots of options in Italy. If you take a card listing the ingredients you are allergic to, in Italian, you will be able to read supermarket labels or ask the person behind the deli counter what products have no fillers.

Here's the website that has the info you need:

https://www.agenziadoganemonopoli.gov.it/portale/en/web/guest/home-english

It looks like it's against the rules to me, see the "Travellers' Customs Charter" link on the right side of the web page.

I'm pretty sure that meat is always on the naughty list. The link above should help....

As Nigel said, pretty sure meat is a no go.

I am certain you will be able to find an organic grocer in Rome. Here is a list of some organic restaurants/shops.

Thing have changed swiftly over the last 2-3 years in Italy with regards to dietary requirements and allergies. For example, it was no so long ago that gluten free products (Senza Gultine in Italian) were a novelty: now almost every supermarket devotes half an aisle to such products. Cooking classes, even Pasta Making classes, may be entirely gluten-free...
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Whilst I don't know your specific requirements, I would be surprised if you could not find suitable sustenance in almost any Italian supermarket.

Douglas, your home country is a secret to us. But if you're from the U.S., you may find that European food regulations, and devotion to pure food, are much, much stronger than the free-market United States. It would be too bad to miss fine Italian cured meats that have never seen the inside of a factory, in a fearful quest to eat familiar food.

My own mother has been Gluten Free for almost 50 years, so I am familiar with problems like sausage and hot-dog cereal fillers in the U.S. But if you make sensible inquiries and choices, the entirely reasonable regulation of meats (just like U.S. import regulations, by the way ... ) won't spoil your vacation.

I travel with food allergies and I don't think you'd need to bring in your own turkey meat - plus, I'm not sure where you'e flying from, but it sure would be a feat to keep it cold enough through all that travel. But food allergy questions come up all the time on this site. If you list your specific allergies, people here might be able to weigh in with information in Italian that you can carry with you.

Here's a few links to recent discussions:

https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/general-europe/buying-epipens-in-europe
https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/italy/eating-in-italy-for-people-with-eating-allergies-to-nuts-cashews-peanuts-almonds-walnuts
https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/food-drink/allergy-issue
https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/austria/allergies-in-austria

You will find that food overseas is 100% better in taste and ingredients. Ingredients in the USA food market are mostly forbidden in other countries . And not just GMO but also the colors, hormones, wood shavings as cheese and so on. Enjoy the food, you will be amazed.

You will find that food overseas is 100% better in taste and ingredients. Ingredients in the USA food market are mostly forbidden in other countries . And not just GMO but also the colors, hormones, wood shavings as cheese and so on. Enjoy the food, you will be amazed.

While I agree that cheese in the cardboard can should not be called cheese - please get your facts straight:

http://www.snopes.com/wood-in-cheese/

It is very easy to eat totally organic food in the US

The EU does have GMO food - they just have to label it as such - except animal products that have been fed a GM diet - those do not have to be labeled - which is why they are starting to label things as Non-GMO

Sorry - EVERYTHING in Europe is NOT better than the US

Yes - the US does need to improve the way they process food

Please do not make such broad general statements

The EU does have GMO food

Not in the UK, unless it has been imported from the US and then it has to have a clear sign on it.

When I see it, the package stays on the shelf.

...pretty sure meat is a no go.

May be true but I've not seen meat sniffing dogs at the green nothing to declare exit. I would have been in ignorant bliss carrying my turkey through Italian customs. Now that said, I've not heard of Mad Turkey disease or a turkey version of foot and mouth .

PS. Hope your muti-pound stash of turkey meat doesn't require refrigeration once in-country.

I think that is what I said Nigel

Same here - I shop all organic - it is becoming easier all the time as more stores are carrying organic products. Eventually farming and livestock will come full circle and it will all be done as it was long ago. One can dream...

Christi I could list hundreds of links but here is just one. I disagree with you Food in the USA is terrible and it is making us sick. Prices are so high normal people cant enjoy fresh veggies or fruit. Prices in Italy and Germany are so cheap for produce its heaven. So I disagree . http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/Food/11-foods-banned-us/story?id=19457237