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As global trade has increased, so has the potential for food fraud, where fraudsters lie or hide the true provenance of produce. Alongside food safety and health fears, it’s raises concerns over quality control, reputational damage and lost revenue, and puts the spotlight on illegal activity. Now some firms are taking to using scientists, a type of food "crime scene investigators", to tackle the issue.

The tactic: In a world where food is exported and imported every day, how do you prove that the origin of a product is legitimate? A company in New Zealand has developed a scientific origin system which maps and catalogues "food fingerprints".

Wine, spirits, meat and even baby food can all be faked, with fraudsters hiding their true origins. Now forensic scientists are clamping down on food fraud, which costs millions in lost revenue and can put the health and safety of the public at risk.

In the Czech Republic last month, distilled alcohol was tainted with methanol, causing the deaths of 19 people. The government imposed prohibition as authorities tried to trace the origin of the poisonous alcohol (believed to be vodka), with great difficulty.

Would an origin system have made it easier?: The EU does have an agricultural product quality policy, which allows foods and drinks to be assigned a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) or Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) category. But this only applies to certified products and would not have helped in the case of counterfeit alcohol."What we do needs to be able to stand up in

court," says Dr Helen Darling, from Oritain. Most food supply chains use predominantly paper-based systems to trace the origin of food, such as following barcodes. But while these show the route a product has travelled and how, and "whatever kind of details you want to capture in that system", says Dr Darling, Oritain's proof of origin "cannot be faked".

Honey is another easily faked food. "Some honeys being sold around the world have had sugars added, there have been honeys supplied with traces of antibiotics in them and some honeys have not been 'true to label' (the pollen source has been different to what has been recorded on the label)," explains Peter Cox, the general manager for New Zealand Honey Specialties. The company is also asking scientists to profile their produce, which includes single flower honeys such as thyme honey, and honey produced in the beech forests of the south Island, or the lakes in Central Otago.