The Law Commission of India has proposed life sentences for food fraudsters who injure or kill consumers. The tougher penalties would be for criminals who intentionally sell adulterated and harmful food or beverage products, and if implemented would
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Experts say fakes cost the industry up to $40 billion a year and the problem is difficult to solve
Chinese authorities are investigating nearly 50 factories allegedly manufacturing fake versions of widely used food seasonings and sauces.
Fraudsters are colouring low-quality tuna and selling it off as premium fresh fish in an underground market which makes hundreds of millions of pounds a year, according to official figures.
Up to 89% of global manufacturing businesses – including food and drink manufacturers – have been affected by fraud in the past 12 months, according to analyst Kroll.
It is one thing looking for an authentic label of quality on your food – but how do you know it ‘does what it says on the tin’, so to speak. That is where science and Technology Company Campden BRI comes into its own. The expert in testing food produ
Food production is particularly vulnerable to crime, whether intentional or unintentional. It ranges from regulatory non-compliance that is serious enough to risk harm to consumers and trigger prosecution, to food fraud where there is intentional dec
Sushi restaurants in Los Angeles mislabel the type of fish in their products nearly half of the time, according to the latest research to show fraud in marketing of food products.
National Food Crime Unit boss Andy Morling says there’s more work to be done to protect the nation against food and drink fraud.
Criminals operating in the UK’s food chain are “home grown” and unlikely to be involved in organised crime, according to the head of the country’s food crime unit (FCU).
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and partners are planning a study this year to look at how well the UK food industry copes with fraud.
Nigeria has confiscated 2.5 tonnes of "plastic rice" smuggled into the country by unscrupulous businessmen, the customs service says.
A recent report conducted by seafood watchdog group Oceana found that one in five seafood samples tested worldwide were mislabeled, from restaurants selling endangered whale as fatty tuna to caviar that wasn’t caviar at all.
To reign in this sort of r
PricewaterHouse Coopers (PwC) and SSAFE, a global food safety non-profit backed by McDonalds and Kerry Group, have launched a free app for companies in the food industry to help them detect fraud.
The National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) should be given additional powers and resources to boost its ability to tackle food crime and protect consumers, a review has recommended.
Carried out by officials from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) under
Condiments top the list of seized counterfeit food in this year’s food fraud operation, reveals a joint Europol-INTERPOL report published today presenting the results of OPSON V which saw the largest seizure of counterfeit or substandard food and bev
Fonterra says it does not know if anyone has fallen ill from consuming its expired milk powder, as the NZ dairy giant tries to come to terms with the latest scandal to engulf the Chinese food industry.
Eoghan Daly, CIEH’s Policy and Technical Advisor for food, is one of the co-authors of the guidance and has been working alongside Jim Gee, Visiting Professor and Chair of the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies at University of Portsmouth.
Animals feeding at sea inherit a chemical record reflecting the area where they fed, which can help track their movements, according to a new study by scientists from the University of Southampton.
Recently Oceana released a poll revealing that 83 percent of Americans support new requirements focused on eliminating seafood fraud in the United States, including requiring that key information such as what type of fish it is, and how and where it
