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.
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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
In the latest instalment in New Food‘s Fighting Food Fraud series, Digital Editor Roy Manuell speaks to Eoghan Daly, Manager of Forensic and Counter Fraud Services at Crowe Clark Whiltehill LLP.
The deputy chief food safety officer for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says collaboration is key to combating food fraud as science is no longer sufficient to stop the problem. Dimitri made the comments during a panel discussion at a two-day co
By Chris Elliott
On a slightly wet St Patrick’s Day, I was alerted to a new breaking scandal around red meat fraud. Operation Weak Flesh saw over 1,000 police officers conduct raids across Brazil’s massive red meat industry, the world’s biggest in te
The EU is introducing new rules to cut down on ‘food fraud’ and prevent a repeat of the horsemeat scandal, which was first uncovered by Irish authorities four years ago. However there are concerns the regulations don’t go far enough, and that a schem
Brazil’s rotten meat scandal may have weathered the worst of the storm, but financial losses from the corruption saga could still reach $4.8 billion (bn), Fitch Ratings has claimed.
It’s not an April fool. The introduction on 1 April of a new registration regime for alcohol wholesalers is of huge significance to the supply chain.
New Food Magazine brings you a brand new interview series with some of the industry leaders speaking exclusively at the Food Fraud 2017 event.
To begin the series, they asked Gavan Wafer, Head of Crime Operations at the National Food Crime Unit for h
A group of 12 people accused of making and selling fake branded baby milk powder in what could be the biggest milk formula scandal in a decade in China went on trial in Shanghai today (27th March)
