The Food Standards Agency’s National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) and Food Standards Scotland’s Scottish Food Crime and Incidents Unit (SFCIU) have today published an assessment of food crime threats to the UK.
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Food Standards Scotland’s Scottish Food Crime and Incidents Unit (SFCIU) has published its food crime priorities for 20/21, alongside a joint UK Food Crime Strategic Assessment with the Food Standards Agency’s National Food Crime Unit.
The SFCIU has
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Fraud in animal food products.pdf
Abstract: Animal origin food products, including fish and seafood, meat and poultry, milk and
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Food fraudsters have found myriad ways to trick shoppers – from cheap horsemeat sold as beef to conventional apples labelled as organic. But new rapid testing and tracing technologies may help turn the tables on food crime.
The owners of New York-based Anchor Frozen Foods pleaded guilty to a $1.1 million (€990,000) scheme to pass off giant squid as octopus.
Roy Tuccillo, Sr. and Roy Tuccillo, Jr. imported giant squid from Peru, then used email and wire transactions to s
Food fraud occurs when food is used deceptively for economic gain, as such, food fraud is not typically committed with the primary intention of causing harm to consumers. The deception can take forms as diverse as the smuggling of goods across border
Sean Daly of the National Food Crime Unit describes how the NFCU will expand to help tackle food crime in the food sector.
Tackling fraud in the food supply chain (food crime) is a challenge for the whole food and drink industry. From farm to fork, t
A few months after an alert about steaks for food aid to the poorest, it was frozen chicken cutlets that were singled out. State services describe a " possible economic fraud ", without the health of consumers being at risk.
More than 60 per cent of seafood products tested at Montreal grocery stores and restaurants were mislabelled, according to an update of a study that tracks rates of fish food fraud in Canada.
"The numbers reflect that this is an ongoing problem," sai
The food industry is advancing at a rapid pace and consumer sensitivity to food safety scares and food fraud scandals is further amplified by rapid communication such as by social media. Academia, regulators, and industry practitioners alike struggle
More than 60 per cent of seafood products tested at Montreal grocery stores and restaurants were mislabelled, according to an update of a study that tracks rates of fish food fraud in Canada.
“The numbers reflect that this is an ongoing problem,” sai
As part of Food Integrity 2020, New Food is hosting a LIVE Twitter debate on 23 October 2019 at 3pm BST.
Professor Chris Elliott of Queen’s University, Belfast, will be taking over our account to discuss and debate food fraud challenges with our foll
Dr Seamus O'Reilly of Cork University Business School at University College Cork (UCC) outlines vulnerabilities in the food chain and outlines how the industry can protect itself.
In the aftermath of high profile issues around food contamination and
Chris Elliott, Professor of Food Safety and Founder of the Institute for Global Food Security, alongside Professor Moira Dean and Postgraduate Research Student, Kelsey Robson, of Queen’s University, Belfast, explore food fraud in parallel supply chai
The profit-driven focus of the food sector places pressure on employees and the food chain to deliver products at the lowest possible cost. Ultimately, this increases the risk of food fraud, according to Arun Chauhan, fraud expert and founder of Tene
Following the great successes of previous symposia in this series in Bari, Italy in 2017 https://bari2017.moniqa.org/ and Vienna, Austria in 2018 https://vienna2018.moniqa.org/, the MoniQA Association and USP (the United States Pharmacopeia) would li
Irish police searched seven sites this past week as part of an investigation into horse meat fraud.
The Gardai (Irish police), officials from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) co
The 2018 report on the activities of the EU Food Fraud Network has been published today. It presents the voluntary exchanges related to food fraud suspicions within the EU AAC System. In 2018, a total of 234 requests for cooperation were launched in
