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Olive Oil, Milk, Honey Among Food Ingredients Most Vulnerable to Fraud, Says USP Database

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Olive Oil, milk, honey, saffron, orange juice, coffee, and apple juice are the top seven food ingredients subject to economically motivated adulteration, according to a food-fraud database created by the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP; Rockville, MD).

USP says the database is the first known public database of its kind to compile reports on food fraud and economically motivated adulteration in food. The database also contains records of analytical detection methods used to detect adulterants.
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China Still Struggling To Manage Food Safety

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Despite a string of initiatives on food safety promised by Beijing policymakers, China’s latest seafood-safety mess looks worryingly familiar.

Shrimp injected with a translucent glue-like gelatin was initially spotted by a consumer in Tianjin in September 2009, whose blogging on the issue drew little national notice.
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Ingredient Adulteration Undermines Food Safety

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The food industry is no stranger to risk management. In the battle for consumer dollars, product recalls caused by contamination or adulteration can be catastrophic. Business, legal and moral repercussions resulting from lapses in food safety and quality are top-of-mind issues for all manufacturers. Significant resources are dedicated to minimizing these risks, generally through a variety of industry (and additionally, manufacturer- or retailer-specific) quality assurance (QA) systems. As global food sourcing and international manufacturing sites have skyrocketed, risk management is an increasingly complex proposition, and quality and safety systems are challenged to keep pace.
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Melamine Analyses

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In September 2008, China found that milk powder, milk, yogurt and infant formula had been adulterated (contaminated) with melamine.  Nearly 53,000 illnesses, over 12,800 hospitalizations and several infant deaths caused by kidney stones and renal failure have been reported.

Melamine was added to milk products to fool government quality tests. [Read more…]

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