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Food Fraud Summary January 2022
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IGFS and UK Government Chemist dive into the sticky world of honey fraud
IGFS teamed up with the UK Government Chemist team, hosted at LGC, to publish two significant scientific papers in Nature Portfolio Journal, npj-Science of Food, highlighting the increasing ...
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Honey authenticity: the opacity of analytical reports—part 2, forensic evaluative reporting as a potential solution
The analytical techniques applied to verify honey authenticity are multifaceted and often result in complex data rich certificates of analysis that are open to interpretation and may be ...
Significant scientific papers highlight increasing complexity of honey authentication
The papers, co-authored by Professor Duncan Burns, Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS), Queen's University Belfast, and Prof. Michael Walker – who …
Probe into £600,000 'food fraud'
Bradford wholesalers believe they have been targeted by a gang carrying out a food racket which is thought to have conned businesses across the…
Retail Food Safety Professionals Set Food Safety Initiatives for 2022
FMI's Food Protection Committee met in January 2022 to talk about its work over the next year and set food safety initiatives.
Reducing the UK’s food footprint: Demand-side action for more palatable food emissions
Reducing the UK’s food footprint: Demand-side action for more palatable food emissions Alice Garvey, Jonathan Norman and John Barrett Key findings Our demand for food drives …