Recent food fraud news includes the seizure of a million bags of fraudulently labeled and expired rice in Kenya, fraudulent spices found in a warehouse in India, and a U.S. grocery store chain sued for selling manuka honey that wasn’t 100% manuka. In
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A new method of detecting Arabica coffee that has been tainted by lower-quality Robusta beans has been developed by food science training centre The Quadram Institute.
Approaches to test the accuracy of claims for samples of roast ground coffee have been reviewed by researchers.
They suggest ways to deal with the key problems such as determining degree of dilution, specific adulterant, geographic origin of the beans
