Food Fraud and Mitigation Tools

1.1 Defra's vision is for a world leading food and farming system. Maintaining a resilient and secure supply chain, and competitive and thriving food industry, coupled with ensuring consumer confidence in the food chain is integral to this vision. Food authenticity - knowing what food is, how it is produced, where it comes from and that it is correctly labelled - is a key part of this. Defra's Food Authenticity programme focuses on the development of analytical methods to verify food authenticity and compliance with food labelling legislation to provide tools to tackle food fraud. 1.2 Food fraud, according to the European Commission, covers cases where \"there is a violation of EU food la…

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