Ten thousand tonnes and one million litres of fake food and drink seized in largest ever global operation in 57 countries during Joint Interpol - Europol Operation "Opson V" from November 2015 to February 2016. The Europol news release gives an overview of food fraud operations across the world.
Read more at: http://www.europol.europa.eu/content/largest-ever-seizures-fake-food-and-drink-interpol-europol-operation
and: http://www.policeprofessional.com/news.aspx?id=25770
Comments
Hi Mark
Although the news is common on both the Europol and Interpol sites, I find the additional news items in the latter site rather more disturbing.
The Interpol site is:
http://www.interpol.int/News-and-media/News/2016/N2016-039
with distrubing news items such as:
http://www.interpol.int/News-and-media/News/2016/N2016-026
Rather puts food authenticity into perspective?
Best
Roger