Beware of food fraud

31 October 2016 - 09:30
By Wendy Knowler

How do you know the product you're eating contains what the label says it does? The reality is you can't know for sure, not unless you have the food tested in an accredited laboratory, and few of us have the money, time or inclination to do that.So we trust. And every now and then we have reason to wonder how often that trust is abused, most spectacularly a few years ago when a disturbing percentage of processed meat products bought in butcheries across the country were found by Stellenbosch Un...

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