The suspects used a dye to alter the color of the sunflower oil to appear like olive oil.
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A report released from Oceana Canada,Mystery Fish: Seafood Fraud in Canada and How to Stop It, revealed alarming results of seafood fraud in the nation’s capital. Almost half of the samples tested—45 out of 98—were mislabelled. One third (33) were co
More than 10,000 Northern Irish cattle have been reported stolen or lost in just three years – with cross-border smuggling thought to be one of the main causes.
The UK Food Standards Agency and the British Standards Institute have published revised guidance for food and drink businesses on how to protect against adulteration, counterfeiting and other attacks on food and food supply.
The rules around food safety and labelling requirements are clear and robust. Problems arise, however, on both an EU and a UK scale when it comes to dealing with fraud in the food supply chain.
Downward price pressures on the UK food industry could lead producers and manufacturers to cut corners, increasing the chance of food fraud and putting food quality and the supply chain at risk, a new report reveals.
Peter Whelan, director of audit and compliance at the Food Standards Agency Ireland, made the remarks at the Food Brexit conference in London this week.
The UK is facing the “greatest threat” to the integrity of its food supply chain since the Second World War, according to food security expert Professor Chris Elliott.
A two day international conference to share information and explore challenges facing the safety, the integrity and the authenticity of the global food supply chain opened today in Dublin Castle. Over 300 delegates were in attendance at Safeguarding
For more than two years, bluefin tuna, a product so valued in gastronomy as scarce, is in the spotlight of traditional producers and sanitary authorities. The reason? Other fish from the same family are being traded as bluefin tuna.
On the 26th September, at the conclusion of the High-level meeting dedicated to the follow-up to the Fipronil incident, chaired by Commissioner Andriukaitis, the Member States and the Commission agreed on 19 concrete measures which will reinforce the
Almost a third of olive oil samples tested within a two year period were judged non-compliant, according to the Rural Payments Agency (RPA).
NFU Mutual surveyed more than 2,000 consumers and found food confidence was waning – and producers were top on the list of suspects.
Methods of testing raw meat DNA in lab conditions can often fail to differentiate between species. A Spanish research team has set out to tackle that problem.
A company director caught fraudulently obtaining more than £200,000 by producing fake labels so he could sell products abroad has been ordered to carry out unpaid work.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), every year one in 10 people worldwide falls ill from eating contaminated food and 420,000 die as a result.
NFU Mutual’s Food Fraud Report 2017, published today (7th September), reveals that takeaways are the least trusted type of food outlet (42%) followed by online (21%) and convenience stores (16%).
A federal court yesterday upheld the U.S. government’s Seafood Import Monitoring Program, which will require some imported seafood at risk of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and seafood fraud to be fully documented and traced from t
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.
- Retail giants turn to bitcoin technology to combat food-fraud
- Fraud costs global food industry up to $40 billion every year
