Speakers:
Caroline Ricketts, Associate, Mishcon de Reya and Member of the Fraud Women's Network. More info

Colin Houston, Head of Incidents, Food Fraud and Emergency Planning Unit, Food Safety Group, Food Standards Agency More info

Key facts about pharmaceutical fraud from the World Health Organisation More info
• Spurious/falsely-labelled/falsified/counterfeit (SFFC) medicines are medicines that are deliberately and fraudulently mislabelled with respect to identity and/or source.
• Use of SFFC medicines can result in treatment failure or even death.
• Public confidence in health-delivery systems may be eroded following use and/or detection of SFFC medicines.
• Both branded and generic products are subject to counterfeiting.
• All kinds of medicines have been counterfeited, from medicines for the treatment of life-threatening conditions to inexpensive generic versions of painkillers and antihistamines.
• SFFC medicines may include products with the correct ingredients or with the wrong ingredients, without active ingredients, with insufficient or too much active ingredient, or with fake packaging.

Information from the Food Standards Agency More info
Food fraud is committed when food is deliberately placed on the market, for financial gain, with the intention of deceiving the consumer. Although there are many kinds of food fraud the two main types are:
• the sale of food which is unfit and potentially harmful, such as:
- recycling of animal by-products back into the food chain
- packing and selling of beef and poultry with an unknown origin
- knowingly selling goods which are past their use by date

• the deliberate mis-description of food, whilst not necessarily unsafe, deceives the consumer as to the nature of the product, such as:
- products substituted with a cheaper alternative, for example, farmed salmon sold as wild, and Basmati rice adulterated with cheaper varieties
- making false statements about the source of ingredients, i.e. their geographic, plant or animal origin

The Food Standards Agency takes the issue of food fraud very seriously and although it does not believe that there is a significant problem in the UK, when it does occur, the Agency has a responsibility to protect the consumer.

Programme:
Thursday 24 November 2011

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