A recent evaluation of the UK post-harvest seafood supply chain has pinpointed factors that leave the nation’s seafood supply vulnerable to food fraud, with third-party certification identified as the most important factor associated with a company’s level of defense against food crime.

The study was led by researchers from the Institute for Global Food Security in the School of Biological Sciences at Queens University Belfast, in collaboration with researchers from VU University Amsterdam’s Faculty of Law and University College Dublin’s School of Agriculture and Food Science.