Food & Beverage

• 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.

• 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.

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