Eva Zavitsanou

Did you know that you could be eating fake honey or using counterfeit olive oil?

Food fraud is when food or drink is sold in a way that is deceptive to the consumer.

And it's not as uncommon as we'd like to think.

Well, joining me now to tell me more is Eva Zavizzano of the Smart Agro Hub, who's working in the European food fraud community of practice.

Eva, you're very welcome to the programme.

Good morning, Claire.

Thank you for the invitation.

And as you mentioned, I'm here.

I'm coming from Greece and I'm here in Dublin because the European Food Fraud Community of Practice and Horizon EU project is organizing in Dublin the first authentic food festival and conference in the University College of Dublin.

So good morning.

Well, you're very welcome and you're very welcome to Dublin, too.

I mentioned fake honey.

And I think that is one where, you know, if you're buying honey, it's possibly because you don't want to sweeten your porridge or your yogurt with refined sugar.

So you think you're doing a good thing by picking it up off the shelf.

But in many cases, we're buying honey that's not honey.

Explain it to us.

Yes, exactly.

Honey is not honey.

Olive oil is not olive oil.

Or the meat that we are buying or in many cases that we eat in the burger.