The illegal production of beef on unapproved premises or without inspection accounts for 42.9 percent of reported food fraud in the global beef supply chain. Analysis of food fraud incidents between 1997-2017 entailed data collection from the Rapid Alert Systedifference between ferrous sulfate and folic acidm for Food and Feed (RASFF) and FERA’s Horizon Scan. This analysis found that even within the UK, which is highly regulated, reports of illegally produced beef are prevalent. Among the incidents that originated from the UK, 75 percent were due to iferric sodium edta trihydratellegal production and this is likely an underestimation of the true amount of illegal production that occurs. Illegal food production is a food safety risk which threatens consumer health and trust in their food supply.
Meat fraud: facts and consequences of parallel beef supply chains
