Food & Beverage

• EC sets up dedicated food fraud research centre

  13-Mar-18 - Expert network says Knowledge Centre will share information on food fraud and food quality issues.

• Clothing and accessories top US fake good seizures in 2017

  13-Mar-18 - Seizures of counterfeit products arriving at US ports and borders increased 8 per cent last year, new figures reveal.

• Mismatch in organic food data in raises fraud questions in US

  08-Mar-18 - Production and import figures for corn and soy don’t seem to add up, USDA forum hears.

• Adulterated supplements use ‘resold’ barcodes to avoid enforcement

  07-Mar-18 - Resold UPC barcodes may be fuelling sales of adulterated dietary supplements, says a new study.

• Seen and heard: counterfeiting news in brief

  26-Feb-18 - Counterfeit medicines, condoms and food, plus Canadian Pacific Mall’s response to its notorious markets listing.

• Graphene burnt into food could act as edible RFID tags

  23-Feb-18 - Researchers have found a way to brand food with edible electronics, paving the way for ID tags that could fight food fraud.

• Database can distinguish gutter oil from edible oil

  20-Feb-18 - Researchers have established a “spectral database” that can be used to identify counterfeit cooking oil and gutter oil.

• Optel hits acquisition trail again, buying GeoTraceability

  14-Feb-18 - Optel has made another acquisition in the track-and-trace category, buying Anglo-Canadian firm GeoTraceability.

• German logistics groups boost effort to tackle cargo theft

  14-Feb-18 - Thirteen German business associations have joined forces to crackdown on cargo theft after a spike in incidents.

• Fearing fraud, US pushes for imported shrimp to be tracked

  13-Feb-18 - US senators have called for shrimp to be included in new legislation aimed at improving traceability of seafood imports.

• New blockchain projects coming thick and fast

  08-Feb-18 - Blockchain's potential for protecting supply chains is leading to a swathe of new projects and pilots.

• Diageo says counterfeits hit Taiwan scotch sales

  05-Feb-18 - Diageo's scotch business in Asia was impacted in the first half of the fiscal year by counterfeiting in Taiwan.

• Seen and heard: counterfeiting news in brief

  02-Feb-18 - China IP infringement, Scotch whisky TM, dodgy websites, Iron Maiden vs fakers, Welsh cheese, fake meds in Pakistan, fish fraud and Mace spray.

• Consumers want food firms to be more open on fraud

  01-Feb-18 - Consumers overwhelmingly expect more transparency from food and drink companies regarding food fraud.

• Special sand could be a new anticounterfeiting solution

  29-Jan-18 - A new sand and chemical mix is claimed to be “the world’s most secure marking system for combatting pirated goods”.

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