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Coming up, do you trust the food on your plate?

To hear that it's been contaminated or it's not the animal you think you're eating at all, it's a little scary.

Incidents of food fraud globally are on the rise.

Could technology usually associated with Bitcoin help stop that?

You can get useful information, but you cannot guarantee that the information is accurate or correct all the time.

That's all here in Business Daily from the BBC.

This week, authorities in Spain are reported to have seized hundreds of tons of ham, a type of Spanish cured ham and other meat products that were beyond their sell-by date.

Companies were apparently tampering with seals and labels to extend the shelf life of these expired products

and planning to sell them back onto the market. It's just another example of food fraud that's costing the industry tens of billions of dollars globally a year.

And that is at a time when the incidence of food fraud is on the rise around the world. We'll come to that in just a moment.

First, though, to Kolkata in India.

A pretty horrific food scandal there is putting people off their usual mutton biryanis and chicken rolls.

Raul Tandon sent this report.

On the show tonight, to deny a Bengali meat in his or her cuisine is quite unthinkable.

Now, sales are evaporating after news broke of a disgusting scam.

Kolkara is a city where people love to talk about food.

And over the past few months on busy streets like this, it's been dominating conversations.

That is after the police revealed that a gang had been taking dead animals like cats and

dogs from rubbish dumps and selling it to restaurants and meat shops in the city.

Indurjid Lahiri is called Kudra's most famous food blogger.

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