Home Tonight Season 23 Episode 29

What's Really in Our Food?

Tonight · Season 23 · Episode 29
Last year, customers spent more than one hundred billion pounds on food in the UK. But do we really know what we're putting on our plates? The horse meat scandal eight years ago exposed serious gaps in how standards were policed. Now, with growing pressure on council investigators, food fraud is said to be on the increase. Helen Skelton reports.

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Season
23
Episode
29
Air Date
23/Sep/2021
Air Time
19:30
Runtime
30 min

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Last year, customers spent more than one hundred billion pounds on food in the UK. But do we really know what we're putting on our plates? The horse meat scandal eight years ago exposed serious gaps in how standards were policed. Now, with growing pressure on council investigators, food fraud is said to be on the increase. Helen Skelton reports.

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