| Abstract: |
The independent business, which produces around 5,200 tonnes of salmon a year from sites in Sutherland and the Outer Hebrides, has teamed up with Oritain, experts in scientifically proving the origin of food products, to prevent food fraudsters from passing off other salmon as Loch Duart’s. With many of the world’s top restaurants and fish wholesalers asking for Loch Duart salmon by name, there is a risk that unscrupulous suppliers try to represent other salmon as Loch Duart. Oritain’s testing measures trace elements that occur naturally at each farm and are absorbed by the salmon raised there. Further analysis creates a unique fingerprint that is then used to verify the origin of the fish. It is estimated that food fraud affects at least 10 percent of the global food supply chain at a cost to the industry in excess of $50 billion per year. |
