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...“As we mark ten years on from the horsemeat scandal, and with food fraud stories so recently making the headlines, it is critical that a robust system of import checks is put in place as quickly as possible...
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...Following the discovery in 2013 of horsemeat in several brand-name ready-meals sold in British and Irish supermarkets, the Food Standards Agency set up the investigative Food Crime Unit....
...His response to an accounting scandal was typical of this approach....
..., or the toxic egg affair, or the EU’s own baby milk scandal in France)....
...Following the 2013 horsemeat scandal in the EU, which showed how vulnerable international food systems are to fraud and organised crime, the number of countries involved in Europol’s operations grew from...
...Many shoppers do say they prefer to shop British, but mostly when talking about meat: a reaction to the collapse in trust caused by the horsemeat scandal five years ago....
...In the preceding year, its Fresh & Easy venture in the US had ended in bankruptcy, while a scandal involving horsemeat in burgers and ready meals did nothing to improve the company’s reputation....
...scandal ever happening again....
...Trust is low, dented by scandals ranging from the horsemeat scandal of 2013 in the UK to melamine-spiked milk that killed six babies and left hundreds of thousands of others sick in China in 2008....
...The food industry has also been quick to adopt blockchain technology, in part to improve food safety after a series of scandals....
...A government commissioned report into the horsemeat scandal by Professor Chris Elliott, director of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast, recommended that the Food Standards...
...This is the latest in a string of food scares to hit multiple countries in Europe, the last serious one being the identification of horsemeat in beef products in 2013....
...British grocers have been trying to shed a reputation for poor food standards in the years since many of them were forced to admit they had been selling horsemeat in frozen burgers and other meat products...
...The 2013 horsemeat scandal saw sick Irish horses slaughtered in an English abattoir, mixed with beef in the Netherlands, sent back to Ireland via a UK trader for processing into burgers before being sold...
...These included the relationship between childhood obesity and sugar consumption, the horsemeat scandal, links between immigration and unemployment, minimum alcohol pricing and the growing use of food banks...
...Yet one of the striking elements of the horsemeat scandal is how few convictions resulted....
...UK supermarket Tesco was roundly ridiculed for tweeting that it was “time to hit the hay” during a scandal about selling horsemeat, and US pizza group DiGiorno used a hashtag about domestic violence (#WhyIStayed...
...Who, I wrote, now talks about the 2013 European horsemeat-in-beef scandal?...
...It is a mis-selling scandal that few have heard of but that has netted tens of millions of victims across Europe: fish fraud....
...Who now talks about the horsemeat-in-beef scandal that convulsed Europe in 2013 and saw supermarket shelves cleared?...
...Danielle Pinnington, managing director of Shoppercentric, a research business, said: “Shoppers have become increasingly cynical after issues like the horsemeat scandal and debates about corporation tax,...
...The deal will not include the UK operations of Findus, which was plagued by the horsemeat scandal in 2013....
...A spokesperson for Sedex, a non-profit group that aims to improve business practices in global supply chains, said: “From the European horsemeat scandal to tragic factory fires in Bangladesh, the last few...
...Ms Herron said a failure to take animal welfare seriously led to potential reputational risks, such as the UK horsemeat scandal in 2013 when it emerged that several retailers had unwittingly allowed horsemeat...
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