Food & Beverage

• 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.

• 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.

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