A Northern Ireland company developing technology to fight food fraud has secured a £2 million investment from a Canadian-born entrepreneur who founded a billion-pound healthcare company.
A Northern Ireland company developing technology to fight food fraud has secured a £2 million investment from a Canadian-born entrepreneur who founded a billion-pound healthcare company.
After international scandals involving horse meat and mislabelled fish, there’s a push in Canada and around the world to combat food fraud.
A food industry network set up to combat the threat of fraud in the supply chain is inviting food and drink manufacturers to join its membership base.
Experts say fakes cost the industry up to $40 billion a year and the problem is difficult to solve
Up to 89% of global manufacturing businesses – including food and drink manufacturers – have been affected by fraud in the past 12 months, according to analyst Kroll.
It is one thing looking for an authentic label of quality on your food – but how do you know it ‘does what it says on the tin’, so to speak. That is where science and Technology Company Campden BRI comes into its own. The expert in testing food produ
National Food Crime Unit boss Andy Morling says there’s more work to be done to protect the nation against food and drink fraud.
Criminals operating in the UK’s food chain are “home grown” and unlikely to be involved in organised crime, according to the head of the country’s food crime unit (FCU).
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and partners are planning a study this year to look at how well the UK food industry copes with fraud.
The food and drink industry is being urged to better protect itself from fraud in order to safeguard their businesses and consumers.
The warning comes from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) on the same day the membership body lau
Condiments top the list of seized counterfeit food in this year’s food fraud operation, reveals a joint Europol-INTERPOL report published today presenting the results of OPSON V which saw the largest seizure of counterfeit or substandard food and bev
Issues with fish and wine in Italy dominate the first monthly report on food fraud and authenticity by the Joint Research Council (JRC).
The JRC said the monthly round-up was launched to inform stakeholders of potential cases and give them the opport
From olive oil that has been cut with cheaper oil to honey infused with banned antibiotics and ground coffee contaminated with corn and sawdust, the food you eat is ripe for fraud.
It's costing consumers $30 billion to $40 billion a year worldwide, a
Three years after the horse meat scandal, food producers are still committing fraud on a wide scale, the consumers association Consumentenbond said on Tuesday. The association looked into 150 products which are fraud sensitive and found in one in fiv
Britain is lagging behind other EU member states in the detection of food crime and fraud and is risking another horsemeat-type scandal, the country’s foremost expert on food fraud has warned.
It has been three-and-a-half years since the “horsegate”
Marks & Spencer is preparing to roll out unannounced audits to the majority of its food suppliers in a bid to further strengthen its supply chain integrity against fraudsters looking to cash in on vulnerable companies.
When it comes to food fraud, the alleged violations are mostly related to non-compliance with labelling rules, falsified certification and /or documents and ingredient substitutions. These are the main conclusions of the Food Fraud Network Activity R
Article by Food Allergy and Food Intolerance Network Faclitator Michael Walker, highlighting the dangers of food fraud for those with food allergies. Article available below or on The Guardian website
Food allergy is an adverse immunologic reactio
This interim report sets out the current weaknesses of supply chain networks in the UK (ahead of the final report to be published in spring 2014), and suggests measures that can be taken to address them.
Professor Chris Elliott, Professor of Food Saf