Figures from the National Food Crime Unit show a surge in the number of
manufacturers knowingly using ingredients which could make people feel ill -
including out of date meat. This is now the most commonly recorded food crime.
Unsuitable food for human consumption is much more common in shops.
Figures from the National Food Crime Unit show an increase in the number of
manufacturers who deliberately use ingredients that people may feel sick -
including outdated meat. After six years of a standards scandal, when horsemeat
was found in hamburgers on the shelves of supermarkets, little has changed.
The professor of food policy,
Tim lang said at City University: “Should the public be worried about it? Yes,
they should. Even if it’s just an increase in reporting, that is telling us
that there is more food crime going on than it was previously recognized."
“If you have a beyond the sell
by date or a meat that is going off and you cut out the bad bits and just put
the rest of it through the mincer, you’ve got an opportunity to add value to
something that otherwise is worthless.”
Chemicals such as DNP often relate to chemicals included in food
supplements. DNP is a toxic chemical which is sometimes sold as a weight-loss
aid, or a so-called magic mineral solution, which has a range of alleged health
benefits but is unsafe for human consumption.
This is now the most commonly
recorded food crime. Between January 2013 and the end of March this year, there
were almost 7,000 reports of food crime. Of these, 1,193 were made in 2018, the
highest level since 2013 when the horse meat scandal struck. That year, 1,517
complaints were logged.
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