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In 2017 European Custom Authorities detected, confiscated and destroyed food with a market value of 2.3 Mio € due to food fraud.
Statistics published on 27 September 2018 by the European Commission show a number of more than 31 million articles suspected of violating intellectual property rights. In 2017 foodstuffs are at the top of the list of detained articles (24 %)
| Product sector | Number of articles, not released, in %, acoording to country of provenance | |||
| Foodstuffs, alcoholic and other beverages: | ||||
| 1a | Foodstuffs | China 79,87% | Hong Kong, China 8,19% | Syria 7,02% |
| 1b | Alcoholic beverages | Republic of Moldova 90,40% | Ukraine 6,29% | Unknown 2% |
| 1c | Other beverages | United States of America 100% | - | - |
| Product sector | Number of procedures | Number of articles | Retail value original goods | |
| Foodstuffs, alcoholic and other beverages | ||||
| 1a | Foodstuffs | 75 | 7519574 | 2.274.866 € |
| 1b | Alcoholic beverages | 8 | 415670 | 237.654 € |
| 1c | Other beverages | 6 | 97171 | 90.572 € |
Tables cited from Taxation and Customs Union: Report on the EU customs enforcement of intellectual property rights: Results at the EU border, 2017 ISBN 978-92-79-93274-8
But also foodstuffs from Turkey were detained with in total 141.187 articles ranking position 3 behind Hong Kong and China.
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More information on food fraud is available on the webpage of DG Health and Food Safety:
Author: Dr. Frank Mörsberger
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