The best defense against fraudulent foods

Red snapper or tilapia? Don't be fooled.

In March 2012 the New York Times reported that FBI agents arrested a leading wine merchant on charges that he had sold more than $1.3 million in counterfeit wine. He was charged with mail and wire fraud. As FBI assistant director Janice Fedarcyk explained, “the bad faith sale of any commodity you know to be a counterfeit, fake or forgery is a felony. Whether you are peddling a Picasso or a Petrus, a Botticelli or a Burgundy, unless it is what you say it is, the sale is a ...

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miko
on Aug 24, 2012

It was about time for this to start to function. The food industry still has so many things to improve and in order to do that a monitoring system is necessary. Take the example of Candy Direct chocolatecoins, they have a great market image, they would never be associated with this kind of situations.

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