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Food fraud: Monkey meat, fake booze, tainted olives
The Associated Press reports that sugar spiked with fertilizer, olives painted with copper, and fake alcoholic beverages are all among the more than 10,000 tons of counterfeit and illicit foods that...
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Food fraud: If ‘price is too good to be true, it probably is’
Chris Elliott, the founder of the Institute for Global Food Security, a laboratory in Northern Ireland that tests food from all over the world in order to uncover fraud, told NPR’s Rachel Martin,...
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Food fraud: Is that really oregano? Is it? Is it?
Herbs are about the only thing I can grow that aren’t eaten by birds, possums and skinks. Except when the cats decide to self-bathe in the wonderful aroma of my herbs, when someone lets them out onto...
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‘No risk’ statements are risky: Six arrested in China over fake infant formula
Chinese authorities have arrested six people for making and selling fake infant formula as the popular US brand “Similac”, marketing the counterfeit product across seven provinces, a Shanghai...
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Food fraud: Skimping Halal butchers in UK slapped with £15,000 fine for...
A skimping Halal butchers has been slapped with a £15,000 fine after being caught selling ‘lamb’ mince laced with cheap beef. Master Halal Meat butchers in Ayres Road, Old Trafford, was found guilty of...
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Food fairy tales: ‘If you eat food, you are being lied to every day ‘
I like Tampa, and even more Sarasota and Anna Maria Island. Brisbane is equidistance from the equator as is Sarasota, and I enjoy going to the rink in flip-flops and shorts. I also enjoyed that Tampa...
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Food fraud in India: ‘soul deep’ concern required
The authorities are required to show ‘soul deep’ concern to ameliorate the sufferings of people caused by food adulteration in the state, the J&K high court said on Saturday, even as the government...
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Food fraud: 22 tons of expired food ingredients, 250 kg of seafood uncovered...
Prosecutors uncovered 22 tons of expired food ingredients, some of which were seven years past their due date, in Taichung, while 250 kilograms of seafood, including frozen shrimp which expired three...
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Food fraud: Police and Interpol crackdown on toxic food
The New York Times highlights some of the toxic and counterfeit food products that police agencies have recently seized recently in 57 countries: 154 pounds of chicken intestines soaked in formalin, a...
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Irish meat wholesaler ‘committed fraud against the industry’
The Irish Times reports a meat wholesaler which was prosecuted for labelling foreign beef as Irish has been told it had committed a fraud against the wider meat industry. Keelaghan Wholesale Meats, of...
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NPR: Greenhouse tomatoes and news for the comatose
I always liked it when Stephen Colbert’s alter ego referred to U.S. National Public Radio as state-sponsored jazz. It seemed so apt. So 20 years after greenhouse tomatoes from Leamington, Ontario,...
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Food fraud: EU warns Italy to stop treating squid with hydrogen peroxide
Michael Ramsingh of Seafoodnews.com reports European trade officials have warned Italy to stop soaking its squid in hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and shipping it to markets around the EU. Italian officials...
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Food fraud: Ireland wants to separate its cheese from Brits
Provenance of processed foods is a significant quality attribute for many consumers and one for which they are willing to pay a price premium. As a consequence, the fraudulent mislabeling or...
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UK goes with Food Crime Confidential
The UK Food Standards Agency’s National Food Crime Unit has launched Food Crime Confidential. This is a reporting facility where anyone with suspicions about food crime can report them safely and in...
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Food fraud: Russian-style
Amid reports that Russian intelligence agencies are disrupting the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign (summarized as Putin wants to destroy NATO; Russian oligarchs lend Trump money; Trump says he admires...
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Food fraud: Canadian greenhouse edition
Ann Hui of the Globe and Mail reports that a few years ago, federal food inspectors were walking around the warehouses of the Ontario Food Terminal in Toronto – the nerve centre where much of the...
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Food fakery: The grill mark game
Continuing in the theme of all the bullshit food consumers will readily consume, Dan Mitchell of The New Food Economy writes a major American food company is planning a new, frozen sandwich product,...
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Food service workers in Mass. will be retrained after bogus certificates surface
Keith Eddings of the Eagle-Tribune writes the U.S. National Restaurant Association on Friday agreed to train without charge about 170 employees at bodegas, restaurants and other food-service...
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Food fraud, China-style, on preserved meats
Daniel Zhou of the South China Morning Post reports a Shaanxi meat factory has been fined 5,000 yuan (HK$5,850) for incorrectly labelling ingredients on its preserved meat products that contained extra...
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