When we buy food - whether it be cooking oil, fresh fish or spices - we trust that the product we are getting matches what’s on the label. It turns out that sometimes our trust is misplaced. Around the world, a new type of organised crime is flourishing: Food fraud. Food fraud is a highly lucrative criminal enterprise that affects a huge range of products including olive oil, fish, honey, pepper, cumin and paprika. Scams range from the intentional mislabelling of inferior products to pass them off as something else, to substitution, dilution and even tampering. Regulators are struggling to keep up with this burgeoning underground business, which is risking the reputation of entire industries. From the olive groves of Italy to the fish markets of France and the abattoirs of Poland, this film takes you on a culinary journey of a very different kind.
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