Food Standards Agency – Food Fraud Advisory Unit launched
Food fraud is committed when food is deliberately placed on the market, for financial gain, with the intention of deceiving the consumer. Although there are many kinds of food fraud the two main types are:
* the sale of food that is unfit and potentially harmful, such as:
o recycling of animal by-products back into the food chain
o packing and selling of beef and poultry with an unknown origin
o knowingly selling goods that are past their use by date
* the deliberate misdescription of food, while not necessarily unsafe, deceives the consumer as to the nature of the product, such as:
o products substituted with a cheaper alternative, for example, farmed salmon sold as wild, and Basmati rice adulterated with cheaper varities
o making false statements about the source of ingredients, i.e. their geographic, plant or animal origin
via Food Standards Agency – Food Fraud Advisory Unit launched.
