SPIRITSEUROPE WELCOMES EU DRINKS FRAUD PROJECT
April 12th, 2014
Industry association spiritsEUROPE has welcomed a EUR12 million European Union (EU)-funded project to combat drink and food fraud. Paul Skehan, its director general, welcomed the five-year FoodIntegrity project, led by the UK's Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) and involving spiritsEUROPE and industry partners such as the Scotch Whisky Research Institute. “The issue of counterfeit and contaminated spirits is huge, we estimate that about ten percent of the UK market is taken up in illicit spirits and the figure is much higher in other countries" he ...
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