Rome, January 19 - One in three food products inspected by Carabinieri food safety (NAS) police over the last three years presented anomalies or did not conform to standards, commander Claudio Vincelli told the Senate agriculture committee on Tuesday. NAS officers conducted on average 39,000 inspections a year during the 2013-2015 period, Vincelli said. Between 33% and 34% of inspections turned up irregularities for all three years, he added. "Since the number of inspections is growing we can say that generally speaking irregularities are falling slightly," Vincelli said. The drop could be explained in part by the greater awareness among producers of inspection activities and their use of more serious production practices as a result, he added. Inspections turned up various anomalies ranging from approximate attempts at counterfeiting to more sophisticated fraud.