FRAUDE ÎN INDUSTRIA ALIMENTARĂ
FRAUD IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes an area of particular importance in the field of food industry and is divided into five parts. I tried to define fraud as found in the Explanatory Dictionary of the Romanian language ,,as committing bad faith, to obtain uses, of acts by prejudice rights of others”. I can list some examples of food frauds: replacement of key ingredients with cheaper alternatives, wrong indication on labels of animal species used in meat products, the weight of incorrect labels selling common foods as organic products, unjustified use of logos indicating the origin or animal welfare labeling of fish coming from aquaculture as fishing in the wild, falsification and marketing of foods after their expiration date. We talked about food additives (known in plain language as E numbers) shall mean natural or chemical is not consumed as a food in itself and not used as a constituent ingredient of a food that has or has not nutritional value and plus intentional, a for a technological purpose (including organoleptic changes) during the production, processing, preparation, treatment, packing, packaging, transport, storage, or other changes applied during a food, becoming a component or affect in any way the characteristics of food./ And not latest about artificial colourants and by the natural color is a feature of the sensory quality of a food product, which along with shape, size, structure and general appearance of the product are crucial in visual reception.

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