There is much talk surrounding food fraud policy, and while there is convergence around the need to ‘do something about it’, there can be divergence around how this should be done as seen in the decisions and actions of concerned stakeholders.
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The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has developed a new metabolomics fingerprinting methodology that, the researchers say, could be used to authenticate organic food products.
Global food retailers turning to companies which use technology to track food supply chains. In demand by multinational retailers and food producers, Inscatech and its agents scour supply chains around the world hunting for evidence of food industry
Article by Chris Elliott
I generally spend the first week of July in South East Asia discussing food security in the region. This year I spent the week discussing rice. Complex issues around climate change, pest control, and arsenic and cadmium conta
A businessman who passed off horsemeat as beef in a bid to increase his profits has been convicted of fraud.
Andronicos Sideras, owner of Dinos and Sons Ltd, conspired with Ulrich Nielsen and Alex Ostler-Beech, of Flexi Foods, to sell horsemeat as be
Another horsemeat scandal could happen if enforcement authorities fail to prioritise food fraud, according to Professor Chris Elliott.
A Belfast company that has developed Blockchain technology to fight food fraud is poised to play a key role in a new €10 million European and Chinese food safety project
Through a joint project, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are exploring mobile tools to combat food fraud and contamination, which result in global annual in the billions and
New research unveiled by audit, tax and advisory firm Crowe Clark Whitehill and the University of Portsmouth’s Centre for Counter Fraud Studies (CCFS) estimates that UK food and drink companies could be losing £12 billion annually to fraud.
Food fraud is threatening to destroy Australia's reputation as a high-quality exporter, with everything from seafood, beef and olive oil to vitamins and wine under attack by unscrupulous counterfeiters.
Results from DNA barcoding of fish from across Europe and Chinese attitudes to food fraud were revealed during the Food Integrity conference last month.
Gardaí have seized 1,096 pieces of meat and other products as part of a Europe-wide clampdown on food fraud.
Operation OPSON VI, the joint Europol-INTERPOL operation targeting counterfeit and substandard food and drink, as well as the organised crime networks behind this illicit trade, has resulted in the seizure of 9 800 tonnes, over 26.4 million litres, a
In the latest instalment in New Food‘s Fighting Food Fraud series, Digital Editor Roy Manuell speaks to Eoghan Daly, Manager of Forensic and Counter Fraud Services at Crowe Clark Whiltehill LLP.
Food Standards Scotland's Food Crime Unit has taken to the road to raise public awareness of the different types of food fraud – and how to report it. Defined as any deliberate manipulation, substitution, mislabelling or fraud in relation to food and
The deputy chief food safety officer for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says collaboration is key to combating food fraud as science is no longer sufficient to stop the problem. Dimitri made the comments during a panel discussion at a two-day co
By Chris Elliott
On a slightly wet St Patrick’s Day, I was alerted to a new breaking scandal around red meat fraud. Operation Weak Flesh saw over 1,000 police officers conduct raids across Brazil’s massive red meat industry, the world’s biggest in te
New Food Magazine brings you a brand new interview series with some of the industry leaders speaking exclusively at the Food Fraud 2017 event.
To begin the series, they asked Gavan Wafer, Head of Crime Operations at the National Food Crime Unit for h
The United Kingdom’s National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) is doing a bit of outreach this year. The 2-year old unit for busting food crimes is inviting people to fill out public surveys and then maybe consider filling out an intelligence report about “a
Many in academia and the media in the UK place much of the blame for food fraud on large, nefarious and organised gangs that are external to the industry, but this ignores the role of those within the food and drinks business who can also perpetrate