27 Feb The great meat fraud, SA edition erupts
While news of South Africa’s own meat fraud scandal hit some headlines back in December (see our story: Is there horse in your wors? Not unlikely!), it's only this week that, with a press release from Stellenbosch University where the study that...
21 Feb Meat substitution and fraud: FACTS optimises DNA screening method
While SA consumers may have nothing to fear from a horsemeat scandal currently rocking Europe, there is no such certainty when it comes to local processed meat. Species substitution is apparently rampant, according to a recent meat authentication study conducted by FACTS' food scientist, Dr...
29 Feb Meat species substitution: getting to grips with the problem
Food fraud is big business, and it has been in the news headlines in SA when it comes to fish substitution, and more recently in late 2011 with the Orion meat saga in Cape Town where the company incurred the outrage...