Protecting the UK from ‘fake food’

Posted on 26 Sep 2013 by Tim Brown

Fake food poses a huge threat to the health of consumers and can prove as profitable for organised crime as it can damage the UK economy.

As part of the UK’s response the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) hosted an international conference last week (20 September) to set out the UK’s plans to support the Interpol/Europol Operation Opson, set up in 2011 to tackle the problem of ‘fake food’. The event will brought together more than thirty countries and key enforcement agencies…

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