Food & Beverage

• Counterfeit alcohol claims 18 lives in Russia

  18-Oct-21 - Two people from Yekaterinburg in Russia have been arrested in connection with the incident, the second in a matter of weeks.

• Headspace test can spot adulterated sesame oil

  18-Oct-21 - Economically motivated adulteration of sesame oil has emerged around the world and is a challenge for public health.

• FDA names winners of food traceability challenge

  14-Sep-21 - Competition sought ways to digitise distribution so unsafe food is rapidly identified, traced and removed from sale.

• 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.

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