Food & Beverage

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  Latest Opson food fraud action zeroes in on honey

  Overall, 15,451 tonnes of illegal and potentially hazardous food products worth an estimated €54m were seized.

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  Criminal gang counterfeits Aussie rice brand SunRice

  The rice is thought to have been grown in Ukraine and Egypt and packaged by a gang in Bulgaria to mimic SunRice brands.

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  Consortium says food traceability must be 'cheap and easy'

  Wish list zeroes in in cost and ease of implementation, and must meet or exceed FDA proposals, says FTLC.

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  Mislabelling found in Chinese study of online caviar sales

  While there was no substitution of caviar with substitutes, 42 per cent of samples were not the species on the label.

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  Markem-Imaje grows in authentication again with Blue Bite buy

  Deal comes 18 months after Markem-Imaje agreed to buy serialization and authentication specialist Systech.

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  OECD says fakes make up 2.5 per cent of global trade

  Update to the highly cited figures show that the trade in counterfeit/pirated goods "has remained significant."

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