Organized crime has started to trade with food, according to the NFA. Now investing authority on tips from the public to stop more food scandals. An anonymous visselblåsarfunktion should encourage employees in the industry to uncover the fraud.
NFA had been able to stop the trade in horse meat before if someone told them that it was going . So says director general Stig Orust Fjord.
– When autumn meat scandal there were people in the industry who knew the company that sold the meat at half price, says Orust Fjord.
– Had we had that information it might have been possible that it was Sweden who discovered that they sold horse meat instead of Irish. When the case of Ireland, so they also had an inside tip that led to the Irish NFA discovered this crime.
Now before NFA a visselblåsarfunktion to increase public advice to the Authority . The idea is that those who work with food and suspect that something does not go right to, anonymously, to be able to turn to the NFA’s own ombudsman. This can include labeling, black money or other cheating, such as pork sold as beef.
After NFA looked closely at the tip it is forwarded to the appropriate authority, it may relate to a municipality or if the turns out to be a suspected economic crimes, to EBM.
NFA has received extra money from the government to work on reducing crime. Among other things, they have improved cooperation with Interpol and the European Union.
General Stig Orust Fjord wants jail terms of sentencing range to increase the ability of the police to make more efforts. For it is clear, he says, that the number of crimes in the food industry is increasing.
– The trend is that it is much easier to smuggle food and make money than to smuggle narcotics or drugs, where there is relatively high penalties. So many countries testify that you see that organized crime is trying to enter the area of food.
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