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How can you be sure you鈥檙e eating what you think you鈥檙e eating? In most cases, food fraud won鈥檛 make you ill, but you won鈥檛 be getting quite what you鈥檙e paying for.

In this programme, Ruth Alexander hears why high food prices and the war in Ukraine mean food fraud is more likely to happen. She visits a laboratory in Belfast in Northern Ireland, where food products are analysed to sort what鈥檚 real and what鈥檚 fake, and she speaks to a food fraud investigator who tells us just how difficult it is to stop the criminals.

And we hear from a spice market in Delhi where vendors and shoppers tell us how they try to avoid fake products.

If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk

Producer: Elisabeth Mahy

(Image: A row of jars of spices, but the one in the middle is highlighted. Credit: Getty Images/麻豆约拍)