Food & Beverage

• Supply chain congestion raising threat of cargo theft

  18-May-22 - Cargo thefts targeting vehicles in transit declined in 2021, but were accompanied by an increase in incidents at storage facilities.
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  How physical brand investigation methods are evolving

  09-May-22 - Don't overlook brick-and-mortar retailers when planning your brand protection programme, advises ApiraSol's Axel Hein.

• UK man sentenced for selling fake Wonka chocolate bars

  28-Apr-22 - Nathan Bennett got 16 weeks' imprisonment suspended for 12 months, plus rehabilitation and unpaid community work.

• Analytical technique can spot counterfeit eggs

  25-Apr-22 - Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy could provide a rapid way to detect the food fraud at an industrial scale.

• Media-monitoring service finds food fraud trends

  20-Apr-22 - MedISys-FF may also pick up emerging threats before they become widespread, according to the researchers.

• UK shop owner pleads guilty to selling fake Wonka bars

  06-Apr-22 - Nathan Bennett was prosecuted previously for selling Wonka bars in similar circumstances in Lincolnshire.

• Spanish police bust counterfeit saffron network

  05-Apr-22 - The gang worked out how to substitute the spice with powdered gardenia extract in a way that foiled testing.

• Unilever pilots blockchain for sustainable palm oil sourcing

  01-Apr-22 - Unilever says it is committed to achieving a deforestation-free supply chain by 2023 using a "tech-enabled approach."

• UK, Ireland warns of fake Wonka chocolate bars

  29-Mar-22 - The bars may be unsafe to eat, as they may not have been produced in line with food safety, hygiene and traceability rules.

• Chinese police take down fake Penfolds wine network

  27-Mar-22 - Op uncovered more than 8,000 semi-finished and bottled fake Penfolds wine with a value of around $1.6m.

• Hennessey adds blockchain traceability via Aura alliance

  21-Mar-22 - Hennessy has become the first high-end spirits firm to join the Aura Blockchain Consortium for traceability, authentication.

• Another UK store loses license over fake Yellow Tail wine

  18-Mar-22 - Trading Standards officers discovered 12 counterfeit bottles of wine at B&G Wines, trading as Max Convenience Store.

• Counterfeit goods 'increasingly being made in the EU'

  15-Mar-22 - Frequent seizure of fake packaging materials and semi-finished products points to the presence of EU manufacturing.

• US notorious markets list adds AliExpress, WeChat

  21-Feb-22 - 2021 list identifies 42 online and 35 physical markets that allow "substantial trademark counterfeiting or copyright piracy."

• Is honey fraud overestimated? Study says maybe so

  14-Feb-22 - Reports of honey is adulterated with sugar syrups have been widespread of late, but may be based on flawed methods.

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