Food safety and animal feed incidents

Food crime is deliberate fraud in food, drink or feed supply chains. There are many different types of food crime, including:

• theft
• illegal processing
• adulteration or substitution
• waste diversion
• document fraud
• misrepresentation - ie marketing or labelling a product to wrongly portray its quality, safety, origin or freshness

Reporting food crime

If you are a whistleblower or a member of the public wishing to report a food crime, you can contact the National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) confidential hotline on Tel 0800 028 11 80.

Alternatively, you can report a food safety concern online.

Local authorities are responsible for cases of poor food hygiene where there is no deliberate dishonesty or intention to deceive customers.

If you decide to report food fraud by whistleblowing, public interest disclosure law protects you from unfair treatment from your employer.