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uk food safety agency in fraud crackdown
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a new food fraud division will support local authorities to take swift action to stop illegal activity as well as helping them uncover cases where the consumer has been misled, announced the uk’s food standards agency (fsa). speaking to foodproductiondaily.com, an fsa spokesperson said that its new food fraud advisory unit builds on and takes over the work of the illegal meat task force (imtf), which supported illegal meat investigations over five years. “the new unit has a wider remit and addresses the need for a wider focus when tackling food fraud, ” she said. consumer deception the fsa defines food fraud as being committed when “food is deliberately placed on the market, for financial gain, with the intention of deceiving the consumer”. this may take the form of selling products unfit for human consumption, such as those of unknown origin or which are past their sell-by-date; or misrepresenting food in some way, for example by substituting cheaper alternatives or making misleading statements about its source. the consumer watchdog which? claims that the fraudulent food market in the uk is estimated to be worth £7bn a year – accounting for around 10 per cent of the entire market. however, the fsa spokesperson said this estimate was speculative due to the illicit nature of food fraud, which she said can only be recorded once detected, thus making it difficult to accurately determine the true extent of food fraud within the uk. detection methods when asked whether the incidence of food and drink fraud has risen since the start of the credit crunch she said the agency was not aware of any worsening of counterfeit activity in the past few months and she claims that the many systems the agency has in place to detect fraud is helping to keep a lid on such activity. “our authenticity programme is one of the leaders in europe in developing state-of-the-art scientific methods to detect food fraud and misdescription in a wide range of foods, from dna to biochemical markers,” continued the spokesperson. she added that the fsa’s national fraud database led to a large seizure of bottles of counterfeit vodka in the london borough of haringey last year. the fsa claims that local authorities, industry and consumers have a vital role to play in tackling food fraud and it said that anyone who is aware of known, or suspected, food or feed fraud should contact the agency by emailing foodfraud ‘at’ foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk or by telephoning its fraud hotline at 0044 020 7276 8527. fraud incidents recent incidents of enforcement by local authorities on the issue include the prosecution of the director the rich complements ltd last year, after two lab samples showed two of the firm’s sandwich range did not contain cheese, but a non-dairy substitute called ‘cheese analogue’ which, costs about half of the wholesale price of real cheese. in 2006, essex trading standards successfully prosecuted two uk based rice importers, surya rice and basmati rice (uk), for supplying basmati brands containing substantial amounts of non-basmati grains. both companies were fined about £9,000 each. and in 2005, the uk newspaper the observer reported an investigation which revealed that some producers were passing non-organic food off as organic, which led to a number of prosecutions.
Source :Food Ingredients Food Science - Additives, Flavours, Starch
Date :
15
April
2009
Category :
Dairy Products
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the uk’s food standards agency is working on improving allergen labelling and control practices used by industry, with investigations set to kick off in november at an open meeting with researchers. the meeting, to be held in cambridge on 26 november, is the first step in the agency’s examination of how external factors may impact people’s allergic reactions to different foods.
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the uk’s food standards agency said yesterday it would investigate reports that milk from the offspring of a cloned cow has gone on sale in the country. an anonymous uk farmer told the international herald tribune he was producing milk from a cow bred from a clone as part of his daily milk output. the farmer requested anonymity for fear of buyers no longer taking his milk, the newspaper said. the eu said two years ago that there was “no clear evidence” of any difference in safety between products from cloned or conventionally-bred animals.
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reading scientific services ltd (rssl) has announced that it has validated new methods to test for the presence of fish and molluscs in food products. the company said with the addition of these new tests, it now has the capability to detect all 14 allergens that must be labelled if present in food products, under the provisions of eu council directive 2003/89/ec and its amendments; molluscs and lupin were added to list in 2007.
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infant formula manufacturers need to invest further in safety controls in order to regain public confidence after the chinese melamine scandal, fao has said. the melamine scandal has rocked consumer confidence in infant formula, and “restoring consumer confidence is critical,” said ezzeddine boutrif, director of the fao nutrition and consumer protection division.
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the debate over products from cloned animals entering the european food chain will enter a new phase next week, as meps ask the commission searching questions about the welfare of cloned animals, ethics, and consumer information. the european commission has previously said that meat and milk from cloned animals are “expected to spread within the global food as early as 2010”, according to a parliament communiqué .
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the uk’s food standards agency is advising that infants are not given rice drinks as a replacement for cows’ milk, breast milk, or infant formula, following a new study that indicates potential to exceed maximum intake. last year a study published in the journal environmental pollution analysed samples from three brands of pure baby rice formulae from different manufacturers, and found inorganic arsenic levels to range from 0.
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e. coli in ground beef, melamine in infant formula, and salmonella in peanut butter - what is next? isn’t it about time the slices of the us food safety pie were taken back from the multiple federal agencies involved and surveillance placed under one roof? confidence in a system where 15 different agencies administer as many as 30 laws is ebbing with us politicians and food companies, following the recent salmonella scare linked to eight deaths, demanding an overhaul of how the sector is regulated.
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