Major EU-Chinese research project into food fraud started

03 July 2017

Food fraud is a global problem. The number of reported cases is increasing and food fraud costs non-fraudulent producers around $52 billion a year worldwide. To improve food safety and fight food fraud, the European Horizon 2020 programme and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology have awarded €10 million to the joint project ‘EU-China-Safe’. The food authenticity sub-project, led by Wageningen University & Research (WUR), consists of 2 segments. The first involves research into the causes of food fraud and the factors that play a role therein. The second focuses on developing new fraud detection methods and sharing them with participating organisations (News Item WUR, 19 June 2017).
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