Dive Summary:
- Neogen, a global food safety authority, believes the European horse meat scandal and recent fish fraud cases in the U.S. are telling signs that the economic adulteration of foods is on the rise.
- While most adulterations or mislabelings do not harm the consumer, after all, horse meat is rather healthy, the trend of adding or substituting ingredients without proper labeling is a startling and rather dangerous trajectory.
- Fortunately, food inspection agencies around the world have begun to pick up on this and, working with producers, are looking to restore faith in the thoroughness and exactness of product labels.
From the article:
"... 'But it brings up the whole issue of economic adulteration and people want to be assured that when they buy something if it’s a food in a restaurant or if it’s a ready made meal or if it’s a raw meat that they are getting what they are paid for and in this case cheaper ingredients were substituted for more expensive ingredients.' ..."
