CFIA took appropriate action when non-compliance was found.
CMEDIA: Food fraud in Canada is coninuosly being tackled by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to facilitate consumers to be confident about the safety of food bought by them and accurately represent and businesses can compete fairly in the market, a news release said.
The latest food sampling results in its Food Fraud Annual Report is shared this year by the CFIA.
After tested the authenticity of 6 foods that are commonly misrepresented, CFIA found out a compliance rate of 92.7% for fish, 77.5% for honey, 99.1% for meat, 86.9% for olive oil, 64.3% for other expensive oils, and 90.8% for spices.
Meat, being this year’s new addition to the report had a high rate of compliance. The findings for the rest of the commodities are consistent with last year’s report, showing the effectiveness of CFIA’s efforts to protect consumers and the food industry from food fraud. Besides addressing existing risks, the agency’s annual testing is used to plan future sampling and inspection strategies to better target areas of high risk.
After potential food fraud was discovered, the CFIA took actions to preventing more than 100,000 kg of misrepresented food from being sold in Canada including destroying, relabelling or removing products from Canada.
While Industry is responsible for properly representing and labelling its food products and providing consumers with true information and not misleading, everyone has a role to play in combatting food fraud and anyone who suspects that a food product is not accurately represented can report it to the CFIA.
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