Food is one of the largest industries in the world. There are well over seven billion people on Earth, and we all have to eat. Every day, fleets of trucks, trains, jets, and ships carry mountains of food from one side of the planet to the other. The global food industry is worth countless billions of dollars every year. It is so vast that no one can keep track of every part of it.
That’s a recipe for fraud! Wherever products are bought and sold, some people will try to profit from cheating. In an industry as complicated as food, it’s all too easy to cheat and get away with it.