Britain is to get a Food Crime Unit to fight the trade in fraudulent foods.
The special force is a response to last year's horsemeat scandal, which saw contaminated beef products reaching supermarket shelves across Europe.
The FCU is the major recommendation in a report commissioned from food security expert Chris Elliott.
The Queen's University Belfast professor has made a number of suggestions to ensure consumers have absolute confidence when buying food.
These include:
- better intelligence gathering and sharing of information to make it difficult for criminals to operate;
- new, unannounced audit checks by the food industry to protect businesses and their customers;
- the development of a whistleblowing system that would better facilitate the reporting of food crime;
- improved laboratory testing capacity, with a standardised approach for the testing of a food's authenticity; and
- the encouragement of a culture within the food industry that questions the source of its supply chain.
Rotterdam, 04/09/2014-INC News
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