Europol said on Sunday 66 people had been arrested for trading horsemeat unfit for human consumption and it had seized bank accounts, properties and luxury cars following an investigation into a food scandal that shocked European consumers.
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New methodology from European food testing laboratories has revealed a "sophisticated practice" of creating and selling counterfeit saffron as fraudsters double down on the 600-year old practice of making fakes.
A fraud investigation into two iconic Italian delicacies — Parma ham and Prosciutto di San Daniele — is rapidly spiraling into the ultimate accountability test of the EU’s multibillion-euro gourmet food industry.
A Belfast company that has developed Blockchain technology to fight food fraud is poised to play a key role in a new €10 million European and Chinese food safety project
Through a joint project, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are exploring mobile tools to combat food fraud and contamination, which result in global annual in the billions and
What if you discovered that your honey jar was filled with high-fructose corn syrup? Or your expensive extra virgin olive oil was actually cheap swill? Would you still eat your organic grapes if you found out that they weren’t actually organic?
New research unveiled by audit, tax and advisory firm Crowe Clark Whitehill and the University of Portsmouth’s Centre for Counter Fraud Studies (CCFS) estimates that UK food and drink companies could be losing £12 billion annually to fraud.
IFA National Livestock Chairman, Angus Woods met the EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis in Dublin recently. Mr Woods said the EU Commission Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) had undertaken a number of investigations on sta
Food fraud is threatening to destroy Australia's reputation as a high-quality exporter, with everything from seafood, beef and olive oil to vitamins and wine under attack by unscrupulous counterfeiters.
Food Standards Scotland (FSS) is investigating Hebridean Sea Salt after claims revealing 80% of its salt was imported.
Asian food manufacturers have been tapping into growing demand for Japanese products by mislabelling local goods to make them appear authentic.
Results from DNA barcoding of fish from across Europe and Chinese attitudes to food fraud were revealed during the Food Integrity conference last month.
Spanish police have arrested and charged 14 people with fraud, and breaching consumer rights, following accusations that a Spanish meat company has been selling low-quality beef burgers with incorrect labeling. Some burgers were found with under 25%
A new investigation from the Washington Post has revealed that non-organic corn and soy with organic labels is flooding into the United States.
Mislabelling composition dominated cases in the EU Food Fraud Network (FFN), according to the 2016 annual report.
Gardaí have seized 1,096 pieces of meat and other products as part of a Europe-wide clampdown on food fraud.
Operation OPSON VI, the joint Europol-INTERPOL operation targeting counterfeit and substandard food and drink, as well as the organised crime networks behind this illicit trade, has resulted in the seizure of 9 800 tonnes, over 26.4 million litres, a
Dubai Municipality will soon introduce a food-tracking process, including DNA sequencing, to ensure food quality in the emirate. Though the food products entering the UAE market are safe and go through a strict regime of checks, a senior Dubai Munici
More than 14% of tested honey samples have been found to be adulterated, according to a long-awaited report by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC).
Government has tested 800 samples from around the world to create a benchmark definition for the prized product