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, the effects of food crime have the potential to impact everyone in the supply chain including suppliers, manufacturers, retailers and ultimately consumers.
The Food Standards Agency’s National Food Crime Unit aims to help protect businesses and consumers from fraudulent supply chains through building relationships with industry, delivering crime prevention initiatives and conducting thorough, proportionate investigations where necessary. This is to support the Food Standard Agency to deliver its overarching strategy that “food is safe and is what it says it is”.
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