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A deal at the grocery store might seem too good to be true, and experts from the University of Minnesota say it probably is. The University’s National Center for Food Protection and Defense is launching two new databases that government organizations will use to prevent Economically Motivated Adulteration, also known as food fraud. Common food fraud includes diluting milk or olive oil or species-swapping fish, said Karen Everstine, a NCFPD research fellow. Food fraud occurs in restaurants, grocery stores and fish markets and is expected to cost the food industry $10 billion to $15 billion a year, according to the Grocery Manufacturers Association. Although most incidences of food fraud aren’t dangerous, Everstine said customers still aren’t getting what they pay for. |
