Project 24337 - Guidance for Organisation of Informal Food Authenticity Surveillance Programmes

After the horsemeat incident, Prof Chris Elliott's Review recommended (No 4) "a resilient network of food analytical laboratories capable of testing consistently for food authenticity in the future". Defra's response was to seek a view from the Authenticity Methods Working Group (AMWG), which recommended that Defra "facilitate the development of guidance on surveillance programmes to inform national sampling programmes." This project aims to produce this guidance. Formal sampling for local authority prosecutions is...