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Fraud involved in food label claims
- How could you set about authenticating the claim that an oil it’s really hand-made?
- In order to verify whether the olives by which the olive sample is made, are truly hand-collected or not, instead of using scientific methods I would propose recurring to social ones.
- This is to say, I would send inspectors to overview the fields in which olives are collected and see if olives are collected by human operators.
- If the answer is yes, then if would be fair to allow those companies to include “hand collected olives” on their bottles and vice versa.
- Why do we think the manufacturer puts claims of this kind on the label?
- To my mind, they use this strategy so as to enhance the overall quality of the product.
- In general, it is considered that the more a product has been hand-manufactured, the better it is.
- Therefore, most companies do not hesitate to claim that actual qualified people has participated in the manufacturing process of the product, although this is a vague idea, given that machines can do a perfect job as well.
- Can you think of other products and claims that might be hard to verify?
- On top of that claim, some others hard to verify can be made.
- For example, that the optimize the flavour of the food on which they are applied.
- This is difficult to confirm as its almost impossible to prove the chemical interactions product aimed-to-be-sold/ another edible product, plus it would be needed a large set of people, due to the fact that taste it’s a very personal matter.
- poliglotaDSeptember 2016Stem nou!
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