Günther Kempe
Chair: Hans-Uwe von Grabowski
The lecture provides an overview of the biggest food scandals during 40 years of official food monitoring. The term “scandal” is defined, and its course, background and consequences are outlined. It addresses both a look back at falsification and deception, the introduction of food monitoring at the beginning of the 20th century, and major scandals of the present day, above all the adulteration of wine with diethylene glycol in Austria in 1985 (which, incidentally, led to one of the strictest wine laws in the world in Austria in 1999). The concluding analysis shows that animal products are involved in scandals more frequently than plant-based foods.
Günther Kempe