CHICAGO -- There are protections in place to safeguard the U.S. food supply, but as with sham designer purses and knock-off watches, there are billions of dollars to be made with counterfeit cuisine.

We want to believe the labels on our favorite food items—"extra virgin," “organic,” “wild-caught,” or “pure.” But sometimes these claims are more marketing than reality. The food fraud industry is ...

In the Fraunhofer PREPARE project PUMMEL, research teams at the Fraunhofer Institutes for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS), for ...

Counterfeit or low-quality products—such as olive oil made from dyed rapeseed oil—are often difficult or impossible to identify at a glance. A mobile gas chromatography sensor system is now being ...

Care for some wood pulp on your 'sketti'? Enjoy a hot lentil latte? Sipping a dirty chloroform-tini? When it comes to these culinary fake outs, the joke's on you! An 18-year-old brings in $300,000 a ...

Four people have been arrested as part of an investigation into the distribution and sale of basmati rice in counterfeit packaging. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said the operation demonstrates a ...

If Eric Jarvey offers you a cinnamon roll today, don't bite. Trust us. It's an absolute certainty, just like death and taxes, that the sticky-sweet, sinful-looking pastry he's offering up is a fake.