An Analysis of the Severity of Food Safety Hazards in EU Food Fraud Cases
Martin Alewijn, Pauline Goemans, Karen E Gussow, Kate J Turner, Annemieke M Pustjens, Adriana Pavesi Arisseto Bragotto · 2025
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Martin Alewijn and co-authors grade the health risk hiding inside food fraud cases in Europe, in a 2025 study. Food fraud is often read as a money crime: cheap goods passed off as fine ones. Yet faked food can carry real hazards. The team pooled three streams of cases: union fraud reports, journal write-ups, and Dutch crime files.
About one in three fraud cases held a notable safety risk. Within the risky set, one fraud type ruled: food laundering, where banned or dirty stock is slipped back into the legal chain. That route carried the most risk of all. Crooks, the authors say, often knowingly shrug off safety rules. They urge labs to hunt not just doctored goods but laundered ones, and food law to treat fraud as a safety threat in its own right.
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| CREATOR | Martin Alewijn, Pauline Goemans, Karen E Gussow, Kate J Turner, Annemieke M Pustjens, Adriana Pavesi Arisseto Bragotto |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 67 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |