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Article: THE GREAT FOOD FRAUD.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 24, 2008
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Byline: Sean Poulter
CHEAP food is being dressed up as top-quality produce in a vast fraudcosting shoppers [pounds sterling]7billion a year, it is claimed today.
There is mounting evidence of battery farm eggs being sold as free range,farmed fish passed off as wild and inferior meat labelled as organic.
It is also feared that premium products are being adulterated to boost profits.For example, ordinary virgin oil is dyed dark green with chlorophyll to make itlook like extra virgin.
As much as 10 per cent of food sold through high street grocers and restaurantsis not what it seems, says the consumer group Which?.
The watchdog ...