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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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no race should have rules that favour the strongest competitors. but unless the capabilities and interests of smes are taken into consideration before the starting gun is fired for new food regulations, they will struggle to keep up and may have to drop out altogether. small and medium enterprises (smes) are the lifeblood of the european food scene. a massive 99.1 per cent of food companies have fewer than 250 employees, according to the confederation of the food and drink industries of the eu’s (ciaa) 2008 figures.
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social and health concerns relating to obesity is driving market growth for the global artificial sweetener market. according to a new report. published by global industry analysts, artificial sweeteners: a global strategic business report reveals that a worldwide weight reduction effort is stimulating the $3.5bn global artificial sweeteners market, of which the us and europe currently make up 65 per cent.
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consumers should stick to the facts and look beyond the hype in terms of the salt and sugar content of cereals, claims kellogg’s as uk cereal manufacturers are taken to task in a channel 4 programme. researchers for the dispatches television programme, which was broadcast yesterday, said that a tesco jam doughnut contained 8.6g of sugar while 30g of kellogg’s frosties includes 11.
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the uk’s food standards agency (fsa) yesterday confirmed the implementation of a protein cap that limits products such as cereals being advertised to children. the nation’s food industry has said it “rejects” the fsa board decision, which it says “raises serious questions about the agency’s commitment to better regulation”. the protein cap is part of the fsa’s nutrient profiling model which differentiates foods on the basis of their nutrient composition to help regulators apply tv advertising controls to improve the balance of foods being advertised to children.
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Coca.Cola
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PEPSI
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Mcdonald
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Nestle
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Mars
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Baskin & Robins
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Nutrika
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Chika
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