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Wake up and smell the coffee
Dr Kate Kemsley reports on her team’s discovery, which makes use of ‘benchtop’ NMR to overturn conventional wisdom on the chemical composition of our favourite drinkable pick-me-up.
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Scotland gets tough over food crime
Launched back in 2015, the SFCIU has already had some notable successes in the challenge of combating food fraud, as the unit’s head Ron McNaughton explains.
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Protecting the Big Cheese
Stefano Berni of Grana Padano explains what’s involved in preventing a world-renowned brand from being fraudulently copied.
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Modern slavery and the food supply chain
With new corporate reporting requirements coming into effect worldwide, what else can the food industry do to combat human rights violations within the supply chain? Abigail McGregor, Jehan-Philippe Wood and Jacob Smit look at the current picture.
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Brexit and Food Fraud – UK Focus 2018
James Smith of the UK Flavour Association shares his thoughts on what direction the food industry should be taking in the face of Brexit. This and much more in our UK Focus...
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Food Fraud In-Depth Focus 2018
This issue of our Food Fraud supplement looks at fighting modern slavery in the supply chain, preventing imitation food and encouraging business to be aware of new risks such as cyber crime.
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Spanish authorities seize 45 tons of tuna
Frozen tuna authorised for canned consumption had been marked as freshly caught fish, with its value priced at four times its worth.
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Issue 4, 2018
Food fraud examined, the evolution of the bar code, and rethinking food packaging as a resource: just a few of the articles covered in this issue of New Food.
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Four academics warn of threat to food security posed by no-deal Brexit
The authors of a new report have called on the Government to publish a proposed migration policy that takes into account the impact EU citizens have on the quantity and quality of the UK’s food supply and services.
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PM’s Brexit plans ‘will kill off’ US trade deal: President Trump
Food industry figures in the UK had praised the Government's whitepaper for prioritising friction-free trade before President Trump's interview in The Sun.
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Probe uncovers 4.6 million bottles of Spanish wine sold as French
A two-year investigation has uncovered serious and widespread fraud among one of the world's most valued commodities - French wine.
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Veterinary Association hits back at Michael Gove for foreign vets comment
Around 95 per cent of veterinary surgeons working in UK abattoirs are from elsewhere in the EU.
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Waters DART QDa system with LiveID Software instantly assesses food quality and authenticity
System couples the ACQUITY QDa Detector with the IonSense DART Ion Source for rapid molecular fingerprinting of foods and food ingredients...
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EU releases common testing method to fight dual quality food
The European Commission has just released a new common methodology for comparing the quality of food products across the EU.
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Issue 3, 2018
In this issue: the upward march of the dairy processing industry, managing the risks of Clostridium botulinum in chilled food, and the importance of LIMS testing in food quality control and safety.
