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.

The Trader Joe's "fake food" conspiracy sounds a lot more ominous than it is, which should come as a relief to anyone who's enjoyed the chain's flurry of constantly rotating in-house branded offerings ...

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 ...

Shoppers should care about food fraud because it costs billions each year and means paying more for lower-quality, mislabeled products. Olive oil, honey, and seafood are among the most commonly faked ...

Counterfeit or low-quality products—such as olive oil made from dyed rapeseed oil—are often difficult or impossible to identify at a glance. A mobile gas chromatography sensor system is now being ...

Four people have been arrested as part of an investigation into the distribution and sale of basmati rice in counterfeit packaging. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said the operation demonstrates a ...