Knowledge Centre for Food Fraud and Quality

"Monthly summary of articles on food fraud - April, 2026. Food fraud cases: alcoholic beverages, meat, cheese, seafood, fats and oils."

"Monthly summary of articles on food fraud - February and March, 2026. Food fraud cases: dietetic foods, food supplements, fortified foods, wine, tea...

Monthly summary of incidents on food fraud - January, 2026. Food commodities: meat, milk, alcoholic beverages, cereals, and fish.

Monthly summary of media publications on food fraud - December, 2025. Food fraud incidents: alcoholic beverages, meat, milk and milk products, fish, and cereals.

A new paper discussed promise and challenges of NGS-based methods for hney autentication

Culinary spices and herbs are vulnerable to fraudulent practices adulterating or substituting their authentic composition. An in-house validation of thirty real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction...

A framework to define maximum tolerable levels (MTLs) for non-authentic components arising from addition, dilution or substitution is described. The framework applies low-, moderate-, and high-severity grades that progressively...

This application contains all the food fraud incidents covered in our monthly food fraud reports since 2016. It allows filtering the incidents by commodity, region, type...

"Monthly summary of articles on food fraud - November & December, 2025. Food fraud cases: water, milk, alcoholic beverages, fish, and honey"

Food Fraud Databases EU Wine DB Wine is a premier agricultural product of the EU and exported worldwide. It is crucial to keep up reputation of EU wine and to minimise...