OT - News Article of Interest about Food Fraud

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Interesting article about foods being intentionally mislabeled in order to make more $$$.... It's sad to read that there's really no control in place to police, catch, stop or punish the greedy who mislabel food to line their own pockets

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36093999/ns/business-washington_post/

Here's a couple of quotes I found interesting

"If it's not going to hurt or kill someone, FDA's resources are limited enough that they can't take time to address [food fraud],"

Heinz USA and Kraft Foods, ...fell victim to "Operation Rotten Tomato," a conspiracy in which the scion of a California farming dynasty was indicted this month. He was accused of disguising millions of pounds of moldy tomato paste as a higher-grade product and selling it to foodmakers.

randomly sampled seafood from vendors between 1988 and 1997; ... found that 34 percent had been mislabeled and sold as a different species. In 2004, scientists at the University of North Carolina estimated that 77 percent of snapper sold in the United States is mislabeled.