Imitation is found in almost all groups of food products, most often fakes are not made according to GOST. This was told socialbites.ca by the head of the molecular genetics laboratory of the Federal Center for Scientific Food Systems named after him. Gorbatov Mikhail Minaev.
“Forgery is typical of the entire food industry: milk, meat, honey and canned food – anything that is profitable to falsify. Often, by falsification we mean partial substitution of a more expensive product for a cheaper one. For example, when honey from sunflower fields is added to expensive buckwheat honey. Or add cow’s milk to goat’s milk. When turkey sausage contains only 20% turkey meat. But there is also a complete substitute: for example, when there is no rabbit in rabbit meat sausages. Cheap chicken and pork are replacing expensive meat,” he said.
Minaev added that if the package says “Made according to GOST”, then such a product is most likely not tampered with: the composition of such products is known and can be easily checked using certified methods.
“But such goods appear less and less on our shelves, because we have voluntary GOSTs, they cannot be fulfilled,” he said.
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