Food adulteration and fraud is big business with a 2018 European Commission report estimating the global cost as EUR 30 billion per year. But there is not only an economic cost to food fraud. There is a very real public health cost too with methanol poisoning, melamine in baby milk and industrial rapeseed oil examples of recent food frauds that have resulted in health scares and deaths.

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