date:Jul 27, 2015
A recent food fraud study in the UK reveals 25% of 78 samples of dried oregano bought at various retailers were found to be mixed with other ingredients such as olive and myrtle leaves.
The study conducted by the Institute for Global Food Security director Chris Elliott, whose insights were revealed exclusively to Which? show that these 'other' ingredients were found to constitute between 30% and 70% of the product.
Elliott sampled oregano from a range of shops in the UK and Ireland, and from