The meal on your dinner plate might be trying to pull a fast one on you. If recent events around the world are any indicator, that red snapper might be tilapia (U.S.) or that beef burger might have a touch of horse (Europe). Don’t think your glass would ever lie to you, either? Care for a bit of the fire retardant melamine in your milk (China)? Or perhaps some cheap Italian plonk instead of that exorbitantly expensive Burgundy you think you’re drinking (U.S.)? A globalized food supply chain and a desire by consumers to see things like strawberries on grocery shelves all year round have exploded the opportunities for fraudsters to make a buck. It’s easy to detect fraud in the food chain when you know what you’re looking for, says Franz Ulberth, an analytical chemist with the European Commission’s Joint Research Center who works on the forensics of detecting food fraud. No one thought anyone would put melamine in milk powder, so they weren’t looking for it.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:52:31 +0000
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