Food & Beverage

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  Salad specialist Picadeli taps Digimarc for anti-fraud tech

  The alliance aims to tackle the growing issue of product look-up (PLU) fraud at self-checkout counters.

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  Portugal dismantles cooking oil fraud scheme

  Operation resulted in the seizure of more than 16,500 litres of cooking oil that was mislabelled as olive oil.

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  New food fraud initiative kicks off in Europe

  EFF-CoP project will bring together academics, regulators and the food industry to enhance food authenticity and traceability.

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  Detentions follow tainted alcohol deaths in Laos

  It has been reported that the manager and seven staff at the hostel where the tourists stayed have been detained.

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  OECD gauges impact of counterfeits on UK economy

  In 2021, the value of fake and pirated goods imported into the UK amounted to £7.1bn, 1.5 per cent of the total.

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  Counterfeit pilchards cause a stir in South Africa

  Workers were discovered relabelling and packaging expired cans of canned fish by South African police.

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