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Food Fraud – an overview
Presentation at
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte Liguria e Valle d'Aosta
Torino, 8 Maggio 2014
Carmen Garau
Head of Unit E5
DG SANCO
(Safety of the Food Chain)
Introduction
• Food fraud, not a new problem
• The consumer perspectives, the views of the European Parliament
• The Member States' role
• What is The Commission (DG SANCO) doing
A few examples in the last decade
2003-2004 Sudan dye added to
chili products
2003-2004 Sudan dye added to
chili products
2007Melamine in
petfood
2007Melamine in
petfood
2008Melamine in infant
formula
2008Melamine in infant
formula
2008Mineral oil in sunflower oil
2008Mineral oil in sunflower oil
2010Dioxin
contaminated technical oil used in feedingstuffs
2010Dioxin
contaminated technical oil used in feedingstuffs
Horse meat: lesson learnt
• Globalization + Technology =
-more opportunities to fraud
-more challenges for fraud detection
• Cooperation cross-border can make the difference
-intelligence gathering/sharing
-efficient use of resources
-effective enforcement
• Science should support increased efforts
-methods reliable/validated
-methods "on top of developments"
Yet another fraud in the food chain!
2013Undeclared horse
meat in beef products>50 000 tonnes of
meat unfit for human consumption!
2013Undeclared horse
meat in beef products>50 000 tonnes of
meat unfit for human consumption!
The consumer perspective*
* Based on studies conducted in 2013 as part of the FP7 FoodRisc project
Horse meat scandal
Horse meat scandal
low confidence in safety and ingredients of
processed meat
low confidence in safety and ingredients of
processed meat
Overwhelmingly a trust issue - not
safety
Overwhelmingly a trust issue - not
safetyGenerally not a
problem with horse meat per se – rather that labelling did not
reflect contents
Generally not a problem with horse
meat per se – rather that labelling did not
reflect contents
Diffuse concerns about product contents and suspicions about the
food chain
Diffuse concerns about product contents and suspicions about the
food chain
Erosion in the ability to make
confident purchases
Erosion in the ability to make
confident purchases
The view of the European Parliament Report 4 Dec 2013 on the food crisis, fraud in the food chain and the control thereof
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food SafetyRapporteur: Esther de Lange
The view of the European Parliament Report 4 Dec 2013 on the food crisis, fraud in the food chain and the control thereof
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food SafetyRapporteur: Esther de Lange
What is the Commission (DG SANCO) doing?
• Strengthening the Commission and MS capacity to address food fraud
• Proposing stronger official controls
• More effective labelling rules and traceability
Strengthening the Commission andMS capacity to address food fraud
• Promoting cross-agency cooperation (food inspectors + police + customs + prosecution)
• BTSF Training
• Integrating food fraud priorities into other departments actions
• Increasing awareness (conferences, use of media)
Proposing stronger official controls
• Regular unannounced official controls directed at identifying intentional violations in Multi Annual National Control Plans (New OCR Article 8(2))
• Mandatory (instead of recommended) EU coordinated control plans (New OCR Article 111(a))
• Dissuasive financial penalties in case of intentional violations which must offset the economic gain expected from the violation (New OCR Article 136(2))
• FF Study
• EP amendments: EU Ref. Centre for fraud
• Obligation to blow the whistle
Labelling and traceability – origin labelling
• Recent regulation on information to consumers (Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011)
• Adopted mandatory implementing rules on origin labelling for unprocessed pig, poultry, sheep and goat meat
• Report considering the extension of mandatory origin labelling to meat as an ingredient published in December 2013
• Other reports on origin labelling in the pipeline
Labelling and traceability – horse passports
• Ongoing discussion with MS on amending the rules on horse identification (CR (EC) 504/2008)
• Important new requirements –recording of horse data in a central national database and more tamper proof passports
• A further revision to reduce the number of passport issuing bodies will have to await a revision of the zootechnical legislation