Announcing our next Public Event: Fraud in Organic Food
Join us for our next WFSC public event on 26 April (17:30, ETH Zurich), where we have a discussion with Professor Chris Elliott about why we should all be worried about fraud in organic food.
The organic food sector is growing globally at an impressive pace. According to Organics International, almost 6.5 million hectares of land were cultivated under organic management by almost 2.4 million producers in 2015. Global retail sales of organic products are estimated at 75 billion Euros annually.
Organic food is particularly susceptible to fraud as it is marketed at a higher price and is labeled to guarantee certain standards, while what makes it “organic” is not visible from the outside. The organic sector is also consumer-driven, and so when scandals involving fraud occur, they undermine public confidence in organic labeling and hurt the market.
At the WFSC public event on 26 April, using organic food as a case study, Professor Chris Elliott will lead a discussion about food fraud and the role that science can play in its detection and prevention. Reactions from key stakeholders will broaden the discourse.
Please join us for this insightful event!
Date: 26 April 2018
Time: 17.30-19:00
Place: ETH Zurich, Main Building, Semper Aula (HG G 60)
This event is open to the public. For organizational reasons, we kindly request that you register external pagehere
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More about the keynote speaker
Professor Chris Elliott is Director of the Institute for Global Food Safety and Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast. Chris led the UK government’s independent review of food systems following the 2013 horsemeat scandal, and the ability to provide safer food by using state-of-the-art monitoring tools is a major research driver of his.