date:Dec 17, 2013
al authorities and the food industry to play in this area.
We know from the horse meat incident that food supply chains are complex and international. We support the European Commission in its work to establish a European Union food fraud unit, to which the FSA has seconded staff, so we are better able to protect consumers from fraud along the whole food chain across the whole of Europe.
The FSA is already working with Defra and local authorities to detect and deter food fraud. For example, we