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21 January 2016 | By Victoria White
Using a new technique, researchers have confirmed that the majority of saffron, labelled and exported as being from Spain, actually originates from other countries...
12 January 2016 | By Victoria White
This month marks three years since news of the UK’s horsemeat scandal first broke. Dr Mike Bromley reflects on the lessons learned by the industry and what the future holds in the battle against food fraud...
9 December 2015 | By New Food
In this issue: Allergens, Confectionery supplement, Food Fraud, Mass Spectrometry, Microbiology, Dairy Supplement, Food Contamination roundtable, Shelf Life, Energy Efficiency, Application Notes...
9 December 2015 | By Stephan Schwarzinger, Felix Brauer and Paul Rösch, Research Center for Bio-Macromolecules, University Bayreuth, ALNuMed GmbH / Bernd Kämpf, FoodQS GmbH, Markt Erlbach
Honey – for thousands of years it has been the only source of sweet taste, and it still is the prototype of an all-natural, healthy food. In particular with the growing trends for organic food and a healthy life-style honey has enjoyed steadily increasing popularity. Unfortunately, while demand is on…
17 November 2015 | By Victoria White
Acoura’s Martin Gill warns that there needs to be greater focus on the growing threat of fraud in the fish supply chain...
13 November 2015 | By Victoria White
Mérieux NutriSciences’ 63-parameter state-of-the art method allows testers to identify if the bottled product is of extra virgin quality and, the company says, is next-to-impossible to be tricked...
9 October 2015 | By Victoria White
The company’s new facility in Richmond, Virginia, will provide the company’s American customers with a more efficient distribution service...
28 September 2015 | By Victoria White
The new unit which will be responsible for surveillance and detection of fraud and deliberate non-compliance within the food chain...
31 July 2015 | By Victoria White
RSSL has launched a service for verifying the authenticity of dried oregano. This follows reports of adulteration of some dried oregano bought in the UK...
24 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Many food manufacturers are not yet up to speed with vulnerability assessments of their supply chain and lack consistency in the assessments being undertaken...
30 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Freeza Meats has been prosecuted at Newry Magistrate’s Court in Northern Ireland for a number of offences relating to serious food fraud...
30 June 2015 | By Victoria White
The FoodIntegrity project is urging academics, research firms, SMEs and industry to come up with innovative research projects to help fight food fraud...
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27 April 2015 | By Victoria White
Eurojust has coordinated police and judicial authorities in a day of action to stop an organised criminal network involved in the illegal horsemeat trade...
26 November 2014 | By The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention
The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) pre-released today a first-of-its-kind guidance document that offers a framework for the food industry and regulators to develop and implement preventive management systems to deal specifically with economically-motivated fraudulent adulteration of food ingredients...
