CHICAGO -- There are protections in place to safeguard the U.S. food supply, but as with sham designer purses and knock-off watches, there are billions of dollars to be made with counterfeit cuisine.

Counterfeit or low-quality products—such as olive oil made from dyed rapeseed oil—are often difficult or impossible to ...

We want to believe the labels on our favorite food items—"extra virgin," “organic,” “wild-caught,” or “pure.” But sometimes these claims are more marketing than reality. The food fraud industry is ...

In a statement to News 2’s sister station KTLA, the Irvine-based fast-food giant said restaurants in Riverside, San ...

Care for some wood pulp on your 'sketti'? Enjoy a hot lentil latte? Sipping a dirty chloroform-tini? When it comes to these culinary fake outs, the joke's on you! An 18-year-old brings in $300,000 a ...

In the Fraunhofer PREPARE project PUMMEL, research teams at the Fraunhofer Institutes for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS), for ...