FOI Request - Food Incidents

Request 101004020360

Please can you provide me with details of instances in EACH of the last two financial years where the council has recorded of food being sold that was mislabelled or otherwise sold as something it was not. For instance, this would include:

1. Instances of substitution – whereby a product or ingredient is substituted with a similar, lower-quality substance

2. Instances of adulteration – whereby a foreign or inferior substance (e.g., bulking agents, water) are added to a product

3. Instances of mislabelling – whereby a food product is incorrectly labelled or marketed, i.e. whiting being sold as cod, beef being sold as lamb etc.

Response 20-07-2026

Following reasonable searches it was found that the Council does not hold the information requested. 

Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.