One year on from the horsemeat scandal, the Food Standards Agency has its eyes on a new potential food authenticity issue: foods from outside the UK being labelled as British.
The regulator is about to start testing a range of foods for their provenance, using stable isotope technology – the same technology that led to the discovery of a non-British pork chop being sold as British in a Tesco store last year.
The study will run over the next two to three months, and will involve 100 samples being tested. These would include beef but also pork, lamb, honey, apple juice and tomatoes.
