One step back, one step forward, and everything that depends on it
How food is traced, how origin is declared, what food crime is and how it is investigated, what carbon labelling attempts, and how a product comes off a shelf.
Traceability in UK food law: one step back, one step forward
Food traceability law requires each business to know its immediate supplier and immediate customer. What that achieves, and where the chain gets thin.
Supply · 10 min readCountry of origin on food labels: what it covers and what it skips
Origin labelling is required for some foods and triggered by circumstance for others. What the rules cover, and why origin of the food is not origin of the ingredients.
Supply · 9 min readThe cases that produced current food fraud law
Food law is largely reactive. The offences, powers and institutions in place today can each be traced to a specific failure that preceded them.
Supply · 10 min readWhat the National Food Crime Unit does
Food crime is deliberate deception in the food supply chain, and it is investigated separately from food safety. What the unit is, and how food crime differs from a labelling error.
Supply · 9 min readFood miles as a proxy, and what carbon labelling actually attempts
Distance travelled is a weak proxy for environmental impact. What carbon footprint labelling tries to do instead, and why the figures are hard to compare.
Supply · 10 min readRecalls, withdrawals and alerts: how a product comes off the shelf
A withdrawal removes product from the supply chain. A recall asks consumers to return it. The alerts published by the regulator are the visible part.
Supply · 9 min readThe Feedworthy briefing
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