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Food Fraud Scandal in the UK: Toxic

vodka and Pet food Meat Given to
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March 25, 2016 | 

The growing problem of food fraud in Britain is costing families as

much as £1.17billion a year, according to o cials. The National
Food Crime Unit highlighted scams ranging from lamb takeaways,
which include no lamb, to olive oil adulterated with colourings and
avorings.
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There is also evidence of fake vodka containing toxic levels of

methanol and the selling of harmful weight loss pills, such as DNP,
which have been linked to the deaths of several young women.
The unit says there are more than 20 organised crime groups
involved in some aspect of food and drink fraud in Britain. And a 20
percent rise in sheep and other farm rustling over the last ve years
has seen animals slaughtered in unlicensed premises – creating
health risks
Part of the Food Standards Agency, the unit was set up in 2013
following the horsemeat scandal.

Yesterday, it published the Food Crime Annual Strategic

Assessment which sets out the seriousness of the problem and the
threats involved.

According to the report, British food is generally safe and properly

labelled but it warns that fraud represents a “serious criminal threat
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to the safety and authenticity of UK food and drink”, adding “Our

assessment shows the threat is real. An industry of such scale and
diversity, worth up to £200 billion annually, inevitably presents
opportunities to criminals. Threats exist at a number of levels: from
random acts of dishonesty by individual “rogues” to organised
fraudulent activity by groups who knowingly set out to deceive
consumers or expose them to harm.”

While there is no o cial measure of the cost of food fraud in

Britain, the report said studies suggest a “potential scale of £1.17
billion” in the UK.

Concerns in The Report:

1. Fake versions of branded vodka, such as Smirno , containing

methanol or anti-freeze – more than 35,000 counterfeit bottles
were seized at Dover.
2. O al taken from slaughterhouses to be used in pet food has
been diverted for use in catering as big events.
3. Shell sh sold from locations known to be a health risk – such as
sewage contamination.
4. Takeaways which have replaced lamb with cheaper o -cuts of
meat – one in ve were found to be at fault.
5. Pubs and restaurants found selling meat and produce labelled as
organic and local which comes from cheaper sources.
6. Olive oil mislabelled as extra virgin or adulterated.
7. One in ten consignments of basmati rice bulked up with other
rice.
8. One in three jars of manuka honey fail to meet the label claims
covering quality or botanical origin.
9. Nineteen out of 78 packs of oregano were bulked up with cheap
ingredients such as olive leaves.
10. Deadly diet pills are ooding back online.
11. Millions of cheap cage eggs have been mislabelled as organic or
free range.

On social media sites, however, people were using the hashtag

#foodfraud:

Please read Daily Mail Food Fraud article. I would estimate two
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in three jars are wrongly labelled !!! pic.twitter.com/AsVxiTgpkM

— Manuka (@Familyfoodsuk) March 25, 2016

Tesco misleading consumers with made up farm names, what a

surprise https://t.co/dM2UFk1yxw#foodfraud Can’t we open
about provenance?

— Foodari (@Foodari) March 24, 2016

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