Food & Beverage

• Alcohol black market accounts for 'sizable' chunk of sales

  12-Jun-18 - Counterfeit liquor accounts for more than half of the illicit trade in some, according to a new report.

• Meat in veggie food: is all still not right with UK supply chain?

  11-Jun-18 - The UK is investigating claims that meat DNA is found in vegan/vegetarian products sold by two leading supermarkets.

• Brief: Chinese police arrest 15 in fake alcohol crackdown

  06-Jun-18 - The authorities in China have broken up three criminal groups involved in the distribution of fake liquor.

• UK authorities nab thousands of counterfeit Prosecco bottles

  04-Jun-18 - Thousands of bottles of Prosecco from eastern Europe rather than Italy have been seized in the UK.

• Anti-organic fraud pilot launched in US

  30-May-18 - A three-month pilot has been launched in the US to prevent and detect fraud in the country’s organic food chain.

• Seen and heard: counterfeiting news in brief

  10-May-18 - EC polls on illegal content, fake goods in China, lawsuits over fake drugs, dodgy airbags, Singapore security, and blockchain.

• Alibaba triples size of brand owner IP rights group

  09-May-18 - Alibaba has signed up 75 additional brand owners to its IP partnership formed last year with 30 members.

• Brief: Macallan debuts new bottle range with security closures

  03-May-18 - The Macallan has officially launched a new bottle design featuring and anti-counterfeit/anti-refill technology.

• Operation Opson nabs 3,600 tonnes of dodgy food

  26-Apr-18 - A Europol-Interpol food safety enforcement action has netted 3,600 tonnes of unsafe and fraudulent food.

• Illicit liquor kills 100 in a month in Indonesia

  12-Apr-18 - Bootleg alcohol has killed more than 100 people in Indonesia this month, mainly in West Java and the capital Jakarta.

• USDA warns of fraudulent organic certificates

  09-Apr-18 - USDA publishes list of importers allegedly using fraudulent certificates to claim their goods are organic.

• Seen and heard: counterfeiting news in brief

  04-Apr-18 - Fake cosmetics, wine and medicines, plus a Belgian meat scandal and a lawsuit against US Homeland Security over seizures.

• UK storage site yields $4m in fake alcohol, tobacco

  30-Mar-18 - Police raid uncovered the illicit goods and stolen car parts at the facility located just outside Birmingham city centre.

• IBM says crypto-anchors will ‘revolutionise anti-counterfeit’

  26-Mar-18 - Says array of digital fingerprints called crypto-anchors could solve counterfeit conundrum.

• Scale of Côtes du Rhône wine fraud “massive”

  20-Mar-18 - The scale of France’s Côtes du Rhône wine fraud scandal last year is larger than first thought.

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