GONE, we hope, are the days of chalk in flour or horse meat labelled as beef, but food fraud is still happening in Scottish restaurants. The breaches fall under two categories, as identified by the National Food Crime Unit – misrepresentation – “marketing or labelling a product to wrongly portray its quality, safety, origin or freshness”, and substitution – “replacing a food or ingredient with another substance that is similar but inferior”.

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