From ‘honey laundering’ to fake caviar: The seven types of food frauds

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After enjoying what seemed to be a lovely meal, what if you were told the prawns you’d just eaten were injected with an unknown gel to make them look plumper and weigh more? Or the expensive wine you drank with it was diluted with fruit juice?

For many of us, this seems unbelievable, especially in Australia, but it’s happening all over the world.

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Food fraud means consumers waste money or more worryingly, eat food with toxic ingredients or undeclared allergens. Source: Getty Images

Our food supply chains are now longer, more complex and faster than ever before, with some blind spots that cannot be regulated.

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