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.

Counterfeit or low-quality products—such as olive oil made from dyed rapeseed oil—are often difficult or impossible to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two massive fake milk scandals shook Vietnam in 2025, with hundreds of counterfeit products flooding the market and ...