Recent News

June 2020

• Do You Buy Food on Facebook? You May Want to Think Twice
• Food Adulteration in China Database published & includes a predictive model

May 2020

• The EU Food Fraud Network and the Administrative Assistance and Cooperation System

April 2020

• Spain and Italy clamp down on potentially unsafe products
• Food Fraud Summary March 2020
• Consumer Perceptions About Food Fraud
• Review of Adulteration and Authentication of Turmeric
• Feeding fiction: Fraud vulnerability in the food service industry
• E-nose for food fraud: Chinese researchers develop rapid method to detect adulterated beef

March 2020

• Review on C-4 Sugar Content of Honey and Adulteration Impact on Commercial Honey
• One arrested, 9 suspects wanted for food poisoning insurance fraud

February 2020

• Reducing the Risk of Fraud in the Spice Industry
• 43 arrested after 27 poisoned by clams in Spain

January 2020

• Industry group tacking food fraud grows members and data pool

• Italy intercepts 9.4 tonnes of illegal pork

• Alleged criminal group sold potentially unfit to eat horse meat

December 2019

• Horse meat meant for a Spanish zoo was sold for human consumption

• 5 Arrested In Delhi For Running A Fake Cumin Seed Factory

November 2019

• US father-son duo facing jail for massive seafood fraud scam

• The Dangerous Side of Food Fraud

• More than 1,000 reports of food crime last year

• Tesco agrees to withdraw ‘fake’ honey
• Fresh fine for horse meat scandal abattoir boss
• Expansion of the National Food Crime Unit
• Contaminated meat scandal exposes Germany’s food safety flaws

October 2019

• Addressing food crime

• Food crime is out there and we need to deal with it, says head of SFCIU

• Meat Plant Owner and HACCP Manager Plead Guilty to Falsifying E. coli Test Results

September 2019

• 2 meat plant executives plead guilty to selling more than $1M of adulterated meat(September 2019)

August 2019:

• Spanish police arrest trader linked to horse meat scandal
• Meat fraud: facts and consequences of parallel beef supply chains

July 2019:

• A seafood company pleaded guilty to passing off 183 tons of foreign crab meat as American blue crab
• Government of Canada prevents nearly 12,800 kg of adulterated honey from entering the Canadian market

June 2019:

• Pakistan’s adulteration ‘crisis’: Food safety department raids yield thousands of kilos of tainted products

• Mince given to France's poor not technically meat - fraud agency
• Premises searched in horse meat for export investigation

May 2019

• Rein in food adulteration

April 2019

• Food fraud: publication of DG SANTE’s annual report
• KP Food Authority seizes 8,000kg adulterated spice blends in Peshawar

March 2019

• Regulator focuses on tackling food fraud

• What is seafood fraud? Dangerous—and running rampant, report finds.

February 2019

• Regulator focuses on tackling food fraud

August 2018: 

• Fight against Food Fraud: 45 Tons of Illegally-Treated Tuna Seized in Spain (13/08/2018)

May 2018:

• New coffee testing method to deter fraudsters
• Beef brands turn high-tech to fight food fraud thieves
• How blockchain can build trust in food (10/05/18)

April 2018:

• Food fraud update at EU level and Interpol/Europol Opson VII operation preliminary findings

March 2018

• Commission steps up fight against food fraud and dual quality products (13/03/18)

February 2018:

• Adulteration with sugar syrups most widely observed honey fraud (23/02/18)
• Blockchain ensures that your online baby food order is legit (13/02/18)
• Fish food fraud rife in China with more than half of fillets mislabelled: Study (13/02/18)

January 2018:

• Consumers call for transparency on food fraud (30/01/18)
• Food integrity and fraud: news round-up (19/01/18)
• One in 10 experienced ‘high’ losses due to food fraud – survey (10/01/18)
• Food Crime Unit needs up to £5M more to investigate fraud (10/01/18)
• Almost 60 per cent of popular Chinese cod fillet mislabelled (08/01/18)

December 2017:

• Scots salmon farmer first to ‘fingerprint’ fish to counter fakes (28/12/17)
• FDA’s adulteration watchdogs talk about food terrorism (24/12/17)
• Organic food fraud leads Congress to weigh bill doubling USDA oversight (22/12/17)
• Blockchain project sets out to defend Australia’s world-class beef (13/12/17)
• Italian Laser Device Detects Potentially Dangerous Food Fraud (13/12/17)

November 2017:

• New Oceana Canada report finds alarming amounts of seafood fraud in Ottawa (29/11/17)
• Seven Held in Greece for Alleged Olive Oil Fraud (27/11/17)
• Distinct 'fingerprint' for Ontario beef sought to fight food fraud (27/11/17)
• UBC develops new technique to identify unwanted animal products in ground beef (25/11/17)
• UK guidance published on preventing food fraud and attacks (22/11/17)
• Blockchain to solve issue of food fraud for agricultural traders and producers (15/11/17)
• DNA doesn’t lie: new technology authenticates food ingredients (14/11/17)
• Analytical methods only part of solution to detect and prevent food fraud (14/11/17)
• Iberian ham fraud could be caught with analytical technique (13/11/17)
• Food fraud: how will Brexit affect fraud in the food supply chain? (09/11/17)
• Pricing pressures could push food industry to commit fraud (07/11/17)
• Brexit squeeze on manufacturer margins could increase food fraud (01/11/17)

October 2017:

• ‘Fish Fraud’ Is Rampant. Here’s How to Fix It (24/10/17)
• 40% of oregano tested was adulterated - Forbrugerrådet Tænk (19/10/17)
• How technology will help fight food fraud (17/10/17)
• UK facing ‘greatest threat’ to food security since WWII (13/10/17)
• Expert Comment: Questions need asking of the whole food system (03/10/17)

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