{"id":14098,"date":"2016-05-25T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14098"},"modified":"2016-05-25T10:32:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T14:32:34","slug":"the-rise-of-food-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-rise-of-food-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise Of Food Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/052516_1428_TheRiseOfFo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You may not always be eating what you think you&#8217;re eating. Natalie Whittle wrote about food fraud and how things came to be this way:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The story of a fish &#8220;freshly caught off the coast of Scotland&#8221; illustrates why food fraud is so difficult to catch. The fish is captured by a Russian ship, sent to China to be fileted, then sent to Korea to be stored, and sold on to other intermediaries from there.<\/li>\n<li>Organized crime has been getting into this business because it&#8217;s so easy to infiltrate and because it requires things that they normally have \u2013 like haulage, storage, and money laundering capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s innocuous items that are targets for fraud. The apple juice you&#8217;re drinking may not be what you think it is. Margins may be low but a lot more apple juice is drunk than champagne.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly testing indicates that 25% of dried oregano is cut with things like olives, and hazelnut leaves.<\/li>\n<li>The industry is hitting back. A lab in Belfast uses a \u00a3500,000 machine that has been repurposed to detect chemical traces of foreign food instead of cancer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/42985f40-f148-11e5-aff5-19b4e253664a.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/42985f40-f148-11e5-aff5-19b4e253664a.html\">Financial Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/03\/the-changing-economics-of-food-fraud.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not always be eating what you think you&#8217;re eating. Natalie Whittle wrote about food fraud and how things came to be this way: The story of a fish &#8220;freshly caught off the coast of Scotland&#8221; illustrates why food fraud is so difficult to catch. The fish is captured by a Russian ship, sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/052516_1428_TheRiseOfFo1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14100,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098\/revisions\/14100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}