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Title : Fake' food likely a hoax - and here's which 'expired' items you can safely eat
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Source : TimesLIVE
Year : 2018
Link : https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/consumer-live/2018-08-31-fake-food-likely-a-hoax-and-heres-which-expired-items-you-can-safely-eat/
Country : South Africa
Commodity: All Food
Abstract: “This needs to stop. They [are] selling us expired food and they are making their own cooldrink coz u find coke in a fanta bottle; fish tin but u find beans…” That tweet‚ posted by “Bongani” on Thursday‚ covers some of the many food "crimes" foreign shopkeepers currently stand accused of‚ thanks to a series of unscientific videos circulating on social media: the selling of old‚ allegedly “rotten” food; passing off inferior fizzy drinks in Coca-Cola bottles and‚ more bizarrely‚ selling totally fake foods such as eggs which never saw the inside of a chicken.