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We Shouldn’t Need a $20 Kitchen Scale to Keep Grocery Stores Honest

Food fraud isn’t just about high-profile heists; it’s happening at your local meat counter.
We Shouldn’t Need a $20 Kitchen Scale to Keep Grocery Stores Honest
A woman shops at a meat counter in a grocery store in Montreal on April 30, 2020. The Canadian Press/Paul Chiasson
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Once again, it took the media to remind us that food fraud is not a relic of the past.

Sylvain Charlebois
Sylvain Charlebois
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Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is senior director of the agri-food analytics lab and a professor in food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University.