The food industry is advancing at a rapid pace and consumer sensitivity to food safety scares and food fraud scandals is further amplified by rapid communication such as by social media. Academia, regulators, and industry practitioners alike struggle
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Technology company IBM is launching a collaboration with Raw Seafoods to further rollout a blockchain solution for the seafood supply chain. The companies say the initiative can help tackle three of the sector’s ‘most pressing problems’: fraud, trans
Three people died in Germany because bacteria-contaminated food from a meat producer was sold on the European market. Although the authorities knew about the bacterial discovery, production was only halted after two weeks. EURACTIV Germany reports.
Customs officers in the Philippines have seized pork smuggled into the country from China.
A large consignment of Chinese antibiotics suspected to be destined for unregulated use on a poultry farm in Northern Ireland has been seized at a British airport, raising fears of a new food scandal.
The Guardian has learned that medicine, believed
More than 60 per cent of seafood products tested at Montreal grocery stores and restaurants were mislabelled, according to an update of a study that tracks rates of fish food fraud in Canada.
“The numbers reflect that this is an ongoing problem,” sai
Reports about “plastic rice” are likely incorrect according to a food fraud expert who says it could have been actual rice that had been poorly stored for up to a decade.
Chris Elliott, professor of food safety and founder of the Institute for Global
DATE: 23 OCTOBER 2019
TIME: 15:00 BST
As part of Food Integrity 2020, New Food is hosting a LIVE Twitter debate on 23 October. Professor Chris Elliott will be taking over our account to discuss and debate food fraud challenges with you!
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AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) — Two executives at West Texas Provisions, Inc. plead guilty for their role in a scheme to sell more than $1 million of adulterated meat - including whole cow hearts labeled as "ground beef" - to the Federal Bureau of Prisons,
The seafood industry is being urged to do more to confront rogue behaviour following the discovery of a five-year-long bait-and-switch scheme involving a US firm.
Chris Elliott, Professor of Food Safety and Founder of the Institute for Global Food Security, alongside Professor Moira Dean and Postgraduate Research Student, Kelsey Robson, of Queen’s University, Belfast, explore food fraud in parallel supply chai
As part of a statewide drive against adulteration, Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA) and district administration officials raided vegetable markets and seized a good quantity of artificially coloured vegetables from vendors.
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Saffron laced with other lower quality ingredients was found in outlets in the county by West Sussex Trading Standards service.
Officers carried out testing on ten samples of the product and seven were adulterated with cheaper plant fibres.
Spanish police have arrested one of the alleged ringleaders of the 2013 horse meat scandal.
Guardia Civil detained Dutchman Jan Fasen in Calpe, Alicante last month at the request of French authorities. The National Court must now decide on possible e
(CNN)It's safe to say 183 tons is a lot of crab meat. It's certainly a lot of crabmeat to import from other countries and repackage as U.S.-raised blue crab.
The vice president of a Virginia seafood company pleaded guilty in federal court this week
Rabat – The Moroccan National Health Security Office of Food (ONSSA) has seized over 900 tons of contaminated material over the second trimester of the year 2019.
The foodstuff, meant for the domestic market, was deemed unfit for human consumption ac
Scottish investigators have helped to uncover a £180 million scam involving dangerous mis-sold tuna.
Food Standards Scotland (FSS) played a leading role in a European inquiry as experts warned of a worldwide explosion in food crime. Faked and mis-sol
Grated parmesan companies Kraft Heinz Co. and SuperValu Inc. have not been able to end multidistrict litigation that began in 2016, alleging food fraud for excess cellulose as an anticaking agent. While the defendants argue that the cellulose acted
Meat outlets in Kenya have been rocked with a fresh food scandal following revelations that unsuspecting Kenyans have been consuming meat laced with dangerous chemicals to make it fresh.A damning expose by a local television station has unearthed the
