Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many officials in his Department are currently working on food authenticity.
Currently, 13 Defra officials work wholly or partly on aspects of food authenticity. This includes work on food composition and standards, food labelling and related science, including development of methodologies for detecting food authenticity. Defra works closely with the Food Standards Agency which has responsibility for surveillance and enforcement policy.