Food & Beverage

• French study finds drop in spice fraud, but not by enough

  09-Sep-21 - Sampling study finds only half as many labelling anomalies as a study conducted three years earlier.

• With white pepper fraud on the up, Bia unveils authenticity test

  24-Aug-21 - White pepper tends to be more expensive than the black variety, and that has made it a target for fraudsters.

• After fraud report, Canada looks at seafood traceability

  22-Aug-21 - Government is polling the country's seafood industry on 'boat-to-plate' traceability to tackle illegal fishing and fraud.

• Tetra Pak launches traceable packs for Russian dairy sector

  11-Aug-21 - Supplies of the packs have been shipped to eight dairy producers, with 20 more on the way, says CRPT.

• Oceana study finds seafood fraud still rife in Canada

  11-Aug-21 - Group criticises the government for not following through on a pledge to implement a "boat-to-plate" traceability system.

• UK parliamentary illicit trade group is discontinued

  06-Aug-21 - APPG has decided it will not be renewed, but will continue to monitor the government's work in this area.

• FDA raps Amazon over products containing undeclared drugs

  30-Jul-21 - FDA test purchases uncovered dozens of products found to have "undeclared and potentially harmful drug ingredients."

• Latest Opson food fraud action zeroes in on honey

  22-Jul-21 - Overall, 15,451 tonnes of illegal and potentially hazardous food products worth an estimated €54m were seized.

• Criminal gang counterfeits Aussie rice brand SunRice

  07-Jul-21 - The rice is thought to have been grown in Ukraine and Egypt and packaged by a gang in Bulgaria to mimic SunRice brands.

• Consortium says food traceability must be 'cheap and easy'

  01-Jul-21 - Wish list zeroes in in cost and ease of implementation, and must meet or exceed FDA proposals, says FTLC.

• Mislabelling found in Chinese study of online caviar sales

  29-Jun-21 - While there was no substitution of caviar with substitutes, 42 per cent of samples were not the species on the label.

• Markem-Imaje grows in authentication again with Blue Bite buy

  28-Jun-21 - Deal comes 18 months after Markem-Imaje agreed to buy serialization and authentication specialist Systech.

• OECD says fakes make up 2.5 per cent of global trade

  27-Jun-21 - Update to the highly cited figures show that the trade in counterfeit/pirated goods "has remained significant."

• Russia's Chestny ZNAK offers prizes for scanning codes

  23-Jun-21 - Russia tries to boost scanning rates for its product coding system by offering a 1m-rouble jackpot to consumers.

• One in 10 EU consumers bought fakes in 2020; report

  20-Jun-21 - Another third of Europeans wondered whether a product they had bought was original, according to the EUIPO study.

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