Food & Beverage

• South Dakota uni wins NSF grants for illicit trade projects

  14-Sep-18 - SD Mines has been awarded grants worth $3.3m for two projects targeting illicit trade and counterfeiting.

• Seen and heard: food fraud news in brief

  12-Sep-18 - Irish potatoes, US honey, Indian milk, Malaysian halal products and sugar in Kenya have all been hitting the headlines.

• Canada needs EU style traceability laws to fight fish fraud

  31-Aug-18 - A Canadian study has revealed that 44 per cent of seafood samples from food retailers and restaurants were mislabelled.

• Handheld scanner tech can detect coconut water fraud

  15-Aug-18 - Adulteration of coconut water is on the rise, but Raman spectroscopy could provide a rapid way to detect it.

• Israeli startup Security Matters plans IPO on ASX

  14-Aug-18 - Israeli anticounterfeit company Security Matters Ltd is gearing up for a public listing in Australia.

• Food fraud: news in brief

  19-Jul-18 - Melamine in chocolate, adulterated tea, counterfeit olive oil, fake organics, and Russian meat traceability.

• Another massive fake pesticide haul as EU clamps down

  16-Jul-18 - EU enforcement agencies seize a massive 360 tonnes of illegal or counterfeit pesticides in their latest operation.

• What makes a country a counterfeit exporter?

  12-Jul-18 - Corruption, weak IP enforcement, and free trade zones are some of the main drivers, says EUIPO report.

• Rosé wine sector hit by “Frenchification” fraud

  09-Jul-18 - Probe reveals millions of bottles of cheaper Spanish wine are fraudulently labelled as being French.

• UK trials blockchain to secure meat supply chain

  05-Jul-18 - The UK Food Standards Agency has completed a pilot study on the use of blockchain in cattle slaughterhouses.

• Cryptomice wins EU blockchain anti-counterfeit challenge

  01-Jul-18 - Italian team was the overall winner in a competition to design blockchain-based measures to curb counterfeit.

• EU enforcers clamp down on sushi-driven glass eel smuggling

  29-Jun-18 - Europol-led operation leads to 53 arrests and the seizure of €6.5m-worth of threatened baby eels.

• FDA publishes guidance on intentional food adulteration

  20-Jun-18 - The agency wants to help food firms secure their supply chains from terrorists and other bad actors.

• Canada’s new food traceability rules ‘don’t go far enough’

  19-Jun-18 - A lobby group has lambasted new food regulations in Canada, claiming they “miss the boat on seafood traceability”.

• Security printer drawn into Kenya’s fake sugar scandal

  18-Jun-18 - Kenya is in the throes of a national food safety scandal as illegal sugar with fake certification labels is discovered.

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