Group Finds More Fake Ingredients in Popular Foods

Jim Avila and Serena Marshall
ABC News
January 22, 2013

[...] a new scientific examination by the non-profit food fraud detectives the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), discovered rising numbers of fake ingredients in products from olive oil to spices to fruit juice.

“Food products are not always what they purport to be,” Markus Lipp, senior director for Food Standards for the independent lab in Maryland, told ABC News.

In a new database to be released Wednesday, and obtained exclusively by ABC News today, USP warns consumers, the FDA and manufacturers that the amount of food fraud they found is up by 60 percent this year.

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This article was posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 11:31 am

Tags: food, gmo, health, natural health

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