Wheat's on your plate? Trust in the food industry is increasingly linked to verifiability

摘要

It was the biggest food fraud of the 21st century. The horsemeat scandal started to emerge inlate 2012, when Ireland's food safety watchdogbought a box of beef burgers from an Irish branch of Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket chain.The pack of Tesco Everyday Value Beef Burgers was just one of 27 beef burger products that the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) had purchased from major retailers for genetic testing.