Almost a third of olive oil samples tested within a two year period were judged non-compliant, according to the Rural Payments Agency (RPA).
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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
Ships routinely transfer fish on the open ocean. Most of the time, no one's watching.
By Andy Morling
I’m often asked whether my job, leading the United Kingdom (UK)’s fight against serious criminality in food supply chains, has made me an anxious consumer. I always sense that my response disappoints. Because the truth is, it really h
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
A federally funded study has found that 20 per cent of sausages sampled from grocery stores across Canada contained meats that weren't on the label.
Customs authorities detained more than 41 million fake and counterfeit products at the EU's external border in 2016 with a value of more than €670m.
Two men have been jailed for their roles in a conspiracy to pass off 30 tonnes of horsemeat as beef – a plot “motivated by greed” that was one part of the wide-ranging horsemeat scandal that came to light in 2013.
This week a horse from rural Galway known as ‘Carnesella Lady’ was central to the latest trail in the ongoing saga of the European wide horsemeat scam.
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.